{"id":7470,"date":"2021-09-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7470"},"modified":"2021-09-04T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T05:00:00","slug":"a-small-boys-plight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-small-boys-plight\/","title":{"rendered":"A Small Boy&#8217;s Plight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1913-09-04\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Birmingham Age Herald, September 4, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The call to school makes Willie sad,<br>He thinks about the fun he\u2019s had,<br>Those leafy coverts cool and dim,<br>The stream in which he used to swim,<br>The country lanes that lured his feet<br>When idle days made life so sweet.<br>And then a shadow glooms his face.<br>No more he\u2019ll leap and run and race<br>As free as any bird of air,<br>His heart a stranger to all care.<br>Now readin\u2019, writin\u2019, \u2018rithmetic<br>Must be his lot, his teacher\u2019s quick<br>And roving eye his nemesis\u2014<br>Could any fate be worse than this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Birmingham Age Herald, September 4, 1913. The call to school makes Willie sad,He thinks about the fun he\u2019s had,Those leafy coverts cool and dim,The stream in which he used to swim,The country lanes that lured his feetWhen idle days made life so sweet.And then a shadow glooms his face.No more he\u2019ll leap and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470","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=7470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}