{"id":7700,"date":"2021-11-16T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7700"},"modified":"2021-11-16T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T06:00:00","slug":"the-hopeful-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-hopeful-father\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hopeful Father"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From <\/em>The Sun, November 16, 1913<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My son had made the team; he played
    Left end and did it splendidly\u2014
At least he did it well till they\u2019d
    Knocked out his teeth and wrenched his knee;
I sat and watched when he was downed
    By seven heavy buccaneers
Who jammed his visage in the ground
    Thereby evoking hearty cheers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His comrades raised him from the mud
    And quickly bore him out of sight;
His face was all besmeared with blood,
    The people shouted with delight.
It mattered not to them if he
    Had finished his career on earth;
Mishaps were what they wished to see,   
    For thus they got their money\u2019s worth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019s now attended by a nurse
    And after this he will be lame;
It might, however, have been worse;
    I won six dollars on the game;
Therefore I\u2019ll cling to hope, and chuck
    The grief with which I have been filled,
For next time it may be my luck
    To see some other maimed or killed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Sun, November 16, 1913. My son had made the team; he played    Left end and did it splendidly\u2014At least he did it well till they\u2019d    Knocked out his teeth and wrenched his knee;I sat and watched when he was downed    By seven heavy buccaneersWho jammed his visage in the ground  […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700","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=7700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}