{"id":7366,"date":"2021-08-07T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7366"},"modified":"2021-08-07T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T05:00:00","slug":"too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Late!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the <\/em>Evening Star, August 7, 1913<\/em><\/a>. By Philander Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When there\u2019s gayety assembled and the lights are all aglow
Why is that we falter in the conversation\u2019s flow?
Why is it that we do not think till half-past two or three
Of something which at ten would have been first-rate repartee?
Repose declines to greet you. It is banished from your bed
As you keep on thinking over all the things you might have said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When your name has just been mentioned in connection with a speech,
And every thought you ever had has drifted out of reach;
When you say, \u201cTo public speaking, unaccustomed as I am,\u201d
And then relapse into an imitation of a clam,
You realize with bitterness than when three hours have fled
You\u2019ll have insomnia, thinking of the things you might have said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2019Tis the fate of many a statesman with a crisis on his hands;
It\u2019s the same way with a lover who in bashful silence stands.
In every line of effort we are likely to be caught
In fierce resentment of some bright but useless afterthought.
Of all the gloomy specters that oppress our souls with dread,
The worst are recollections of the things we might have said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Evening Star, August 7, 1913. By Philander Johnson. When there\u2019s gayety assembled and the lights are all aglowWhy is that we falter in the conversation\u2019s flow?Why is it that we do not think till half-past two or threeOf something which at ten would have been first-rate repartee?Repose declines to greet you. It is […]<\/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-7366","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\/7366","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=7366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}