{"id":7838,"date":"2021-12-27T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7838"},"modified":"2021-12-27T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T06:00:00","slug":"the-dilettante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-dilettante\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dilettante"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn88085187\/1913-12-27\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Tacoma Times, December 27, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>. By Berton Braley.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAlas,\u201d the struggling painter cried,<br>\u201cMy artist soul is sorely tried,<br>The crass commercial side of life,<br>The constant toil, the constant strife,<br>Give me no chance to do my best,<br>But keep me working without rest<br>At making pictures which will sell,<br>A thing at which I would rebel<br>If I had money so I could.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortune to that young man was god,<br>An uncle died and left his roll<br>To him who had the \u201cartist soul.\u201d<br>No longer was there need to do<br>The pictures he\u2019d objected to,<br>And \u201cArt for Art\u2019s sake\u201d he was free<br>To follow long and faithfully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But when his money came to him<br>Somehow ambition lost its vim;<br>Without the struggle and the fight,<br>The game had lost its old delight;<br>At first the work he did was small;<br>At last he didn\u2019t paint at all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The moral is that too much pelf\u2014<br>Oh, make the moral for yourself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Tacoma Times, December 27, 1913. By Berton Braley. \u201cAlas,\u201d the struggling painter cried,\u201cMy artist soul is sorely tried,The crass commercial side of life,The constant toil, the constant strife,Give me no chance to do my best,But keep me working without restAt making pictures which will sell,A thing at which I would rebelIf I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-7838","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\/7838","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=7838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}