{"id":7947,"date":"2022-02-13T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7947"},"modified":"2022-02-13T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T06:00:00","slug":"the-heart-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-heart-of-things\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heart of Things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From <\/em>The Detroit Times, February 13, 1914<\/em><\/a>. By Berton Braley.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you care for a girl\u2014why, the world is a place
    That was only created for holding her,
And the day\u2019s but a light that illumines her face
    And the night but a mantle enfolding her;
And when you are working or when you\u2019re at play
    Your mind will not turn from the theme of her;
You muse and you think of her always by day,
    And when it comes night-time you dream of her!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where you care for a girl\u2014and the girl cares for you,
    Life seems like a pilgrimage glorious,
Where the breezes are sweet and the sky\u2019s always blue
    And love is forever victorious;
When you care for a girl and the girl doesn\u2019t care,
    Well, life\u2019s dull and gray\u2014there\u2019s no doubt of it,
And it\u2019s hard to keep on with a gay-hearted air
    When the light and the joy have gone out of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Detroit Times, February 13, 1914. By Berton Braley. When you care for a girl\u2014why, the world is a place    That was only created for holding her,And the day\u2019s but a light that illumines her face    And the night but a mantle enfolding her;And when you are working or when you\u2019re at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-7947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-detroit-times","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7947","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=7947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}