{"id":7724,"date":"2021-11-27T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7724"},"modified":"2021-11-27T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T06:00:00","slug":"thanksgiving-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/thanksgiving-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn99021999\/1913-11-27\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Omaha Daily Bee, November 27, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>. By Edmund Vance Cooke.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Come! Let us take our prated prayers, review them and examine;<br>Are they because our feast is full while others share a famine?<br>Are they because we ride the road which others pick and shovel?<br>Are they because our walls are wide while others crowd a hovel?<br>Are they because our limbs are swathed, while some are rawed by weather?<br>Or are they only for the gifts we all may share together?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks are not thanks which only make another\u2019s want our measure,<br>Or only by another\u2019s pain to gauge a selfish pleasure.<br>Thanks are not thanks whose words are stones to pelt a lesser brother,<br>Or that we make our blessedness the burden of another.<br>Thanks are not thanks for tender palms that others be as leather;<br>Thanks are but thanks for such good gifts as all hands hold together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give us to know the larger day which deprecates Thanksgiving,<br>Save for the universal feast which spreads for all the living.<br>Give us to pray the larger prayer whereby our senses quicken<br>And sees no gain in any good whereby another\u2019s stricken.<br>Give us to scorn the captured spoil which asks no why or whether.<br>Give us to toil toward that gain which all may share together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Omaha Daily Bee, November 27, 1913. By Edmund Vance Cooke. Come! Let us take our prated prayers, review them and examine;Are they because our feast is full while others share a famine?Are they because we ride the road which others pick and shovel?Are they because our walls are wide while others crowd a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[108],"class_list":["post-7724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee","tag-edmund-vance-cooke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7724","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=7724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}