{"id":7297,"date":"2021-07-19T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7297"},"modified":"2021-07-19T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T05:00:00","slug":"human-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/human-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045433\/1913-07-19\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\"><em>The Washington Herald, July 19, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>. By John A. Joyce.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the morning of life<br>I was filled with ambition<br>To roam o\u2019er the world<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And see sights afar;<br>But somehow in age<br>I am prone to contrition<br>At missing the splendors<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; That shone in my star.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many friends came around me<br>In moments of pleasure,<br>Who drank at my banquet<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And laughed at my wit.<br>Yet when they had found<br>That I lost all my treasure<br>They left me in sorrow<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And silence to sit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The voice of the crowd<br>As it rung in my praises<br>Awakened a joy<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; I imagined would last.<br>But, alas, my ambition<br>Lies under the daisies<br>And the wrecks of my glory<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Are strewn in the past!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the morning of life<br \/>\nI was filled with ambition<br \/>\nTo roam o\u2019er the world<br \/>\n    And see sights afar;<br \/>\nBut somehow in age<br \/>\nI am prone to contrition<br \/>\nAt missing the splendors<br \/>\n    That shone in my star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,23],"tags":[187],"class_list":["post-7297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-washington-herald","tag-john-a-joyce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7297","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=7297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}