{"id":7255,"date":"2021-07-06T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7255"},"modified":"2021-07-06T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T05:00:00","slug":"a-small-philosopher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-small-philosopher\/","title":{"rendered":"A Small Philosopher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1913-07-06\/ed-1\/seq-18\/\"><em>Evening Star, July 6, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Philander Johnson.<\/em>\n \n\n A little baby laughed one day;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 I paused and wondered why.\n None of the wealth could it display\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For which the grown folk sigh.\n \n Its wardrobe seemed exceeding slim.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 No jewelry it wore.\n Its home was up a side street dim,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Behind a dusty store.\n \n It hadn\u2019t even teeth or hair.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Its hands were frail and small.\n And yet it sat goo-gooing there,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 As if it had them all.\n \n It seemed to say that happiness\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Rests not with pomp or pelf;\n It comes not from what you possess,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 But from your real self.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little baby laughed one day;<br \/>\n    I paused and wondered why.<br \/>\nNone of the wealth could it display<br \/>\n    For which the grown folk sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[248],"class_list":["post-7255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-philander-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}