{"id":7549,"date":"2021-10-06T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7549"},"modified":"2021-10-06T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T05:00:00","slug":"the-ideal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-ideal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ideal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From <\/em>The Tacoma Times, October 6, 1913<\/em><\/a>. By Berton Braley.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She firmly declared that the man she should marry
    Must wholly conform to a certain ideal.
He mustn\u2019t be homely, like Tom, Dick and Harry,
    But handsome and noble, with muscles like steel;
He must have an intellect masterly, splendid,
    Ambition and power and honor and fame,
With knowledge and humor delightfully blended\u2014
    And other requirements too many to name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She married a chap who was dull as you find \u2018em,
    And homely besides, as an unpainted fence;
The wise ones had long ago left him behind \u2018em;
    His lack of ambition was something intense;
His humor was minus and, as for his knowledge,
    He hadn\u2019t enough to come in when it rains;
His father had wanted to send him to college,
    But found\u2014to his grief\u2014that he hadn\u2019t the brains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet she doesn\u2019t think she has been inconsistent;
    She truly believes he is all that she thought;
She clothes him with charms that are quite non-existent
    And dreams him the wonderful man that she sought;
We notice her choice and we chuckle and chortle
    And wonder how such a poor dub could appeal,
But she takes that commonplace, every-day mortal
    And firmly believes she has found her ideal!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Tacoma Times, October 6, 1913. By Berton Braley. She firmly declared that the man she should marry    Must wholly conform to a certain ideal.He mustn\u2019t be homely, like Tom, Dick and Harry,    But handsome and noble, with muscles like steel;He must have an intellect masterly, splendid,    Ambition and power and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-7549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-tacoma-times","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549","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=7549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}