{"id":7495,"date":"2021-09-15T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7495"},"modified":"2021-09-15T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T05:00:00","slug":"if-his-mother-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/if-his-mother-knew\/","title":{"rendered":"If His Mother Knew"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1913-09-15\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Rock Island Argus, September 15, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hold on, young man; one moment, please,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Before you pass that door tonight:<br>You say you mean no harm, you say<br>You\u2019ll bring a sinless heart away,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; You say that you are strong, that Right<br>Shall guard you from the wiles of Wrong,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; That to yourself you will be true,<br>But would you still seek pleasure there\u2014<br>Come, answer truly and be fair\u2014<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; If you could know your mother knew?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We always tell ourselves before<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; We weakly yield that we are strong;<br>We always, ere we enter in,<br>Expect to leave still free from sin<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And still the armored foes of Wrong,<br>But few would fall and few would sigh,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Remorse would gnaw the hearts of few<br>If each, when Conscience cries, \u201cBeware!\u201d<br>Would ask himself if he would care<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; To do it if his mother knew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Rock Island Argus, September 15, 1913. Hold on, young man; one moment, please,&nbsp; &nbsp; Before you pass that door tonight:You say you mean no harm, you sayYou\u2019ll bring a sinless heart away,&nbsp; &nbsp; You say that you are strong, that RightShall guard you from the wiles of Wrong,&nbsp; &nbsp; That to yourself you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495","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=7495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}