{"id":7887,"date":"2022-01-18T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7887"},"modified":"2022-01-18T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T06:00:00","slug":"the-goal-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-goal-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Goal of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn99021999\/1914-01-18\/ed-1\/seq-16\/\"><em>Omaha Daily Bee, January 18, 1914<\/em><\/a><em>. By Grace Sorenson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I call it not success<br>To gain a fortune or<br>To win renown, unless<br>In climbing upward thou<br>Hast left a trail behind<br>Of happiness for those<br>Along the way. If greed<br>Has been thy only aim,<br>Then thou hast missed the goal<br>Of life, while he who treads<br>The lowly paths and helps<br>His fellowmen receives<br>A greater joy than thou<br>Canst find in wealth or fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Omaha Daily Bee, January 18, 1914. By Grace Sorenson. I call it not successTo gain a fortune orTo win renown, unlessIn climbing upward thouHast left a trail behindOf happiness for thoseAlong the way. If greedHas been thy only aim,Then thou hast missed the goalOf life, while he who treadsThe lowly paths and helpsHis [&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":[143],"class_list":["post-7887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee","tag-grace-sorenson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887","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=7887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}