{"id":7637,"date":"2021-11-14T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7637"},"modified":"2021-11-14T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T06:00:00","slug":"as-to-pining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/as-to-pining\/","title":{"rendered":"As to Pining"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From <\/em>The Washington Herald, November 14, 1913<\/em><\/a>. By John Kendrick Bangs.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The English tongue sometimes, I fear
Would strike a man from Mars as queer.
For instance, when some people say,
\u201c\u2019Tis sad to see one pine away,\u201d
They do not know the kind of pine
That gladdens so this soul of mine.
When I observe it front the ill
Of winter with its bitter chill,
Its green persistent in the face
Of every blast that comes from space;
Its head held high against the sky
Whatever tempest passes by;
And \u2018mid the blizzards as serene
As in the summer, soft and green.
It simply pines, and pines away,
And gathers strength day after day;
And stands erect whatever may be
And takes what comes unflinchingly.
How wondrous fine \u2018twould be, I say,
If folks would only \u201cpine\u201d that way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Washington Herald, November 14, 1913. By John Kendrick Bangs. The English tongue sometimes, I fearWould strike a man from Mars as queer.For instance, when some people say,\u201c\u2019Tis sad to see one pine away,\u201dThey do not know the kind of pineThat gladdens so this soul of mine.When I observe it front the illOf winter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,23],"tags":[195],"class_list":["post-7637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-washington-herald","tag-john-kendrick-bangs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637","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=7637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}