{"id":7310,"date":"2021-07-25T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7310"},"modified":"2021-07-25T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T05:00:00","slug":"the-reward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-reward\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn87055779\/1913-07-25\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\"><em>South Bend News Times, July 25, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>. By Berton Braley.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He passed Love up for money and got the cash he sought,<br>For gold he gave up Friendship\u2014which can\u2019t be sold or bought,<br>He bade good-bye to pleasure, he said farewell to fun,<br>He only wanted cash in hand\u2014and cash was what he won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had no heart for laughter, no time to dream or dance,<br>Adventure had no charms for him, he scoffed at fair Romance,<br>The Joy of Living called to him, but ah, he wouldn\u2019t hear,<br>What did he care if grass were green and skies were blue and clear?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He knew that profits mounted up, that interest was high,<br>But gold of dawn or sunset seemed worthless to his eye,<br>For all the fun and frolic, the sorrow or the pain,<br>The wonder of the busy world, its struggle, stress and strain,<br>Were nothing much but noise to him, and so he toiled along<br>And never knew the face of joy or listened to her song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For all his greed of heart and hand, his trail of wrong and fraud,<br>What punishment shall come to him whose money was his god?<br>Behold, he hath his punishment and more he needeth not.<br>He gave his very soul for Gold\u2014and Gold is All he got!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He passed Love up for money and got the cash he sought,<br \/>\nFor gold he gave up Friendship\u2014which can\u2019t be sold or bought,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-7310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-south-bend-news-times","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7310","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=7310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}