{"id":8034,"date":"2022-03-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8034"},"modified":"2022-03-23T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T05:00:00","slug":"his-reward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/his-reward\/","title":{"rendered":"His Reward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1914-03-23\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Rock Island Argus, March 23, 1914<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No matter how his heart was wrung<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; He kept a smile of cheer;<br>He never had a spiteful tongue;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; His conscience, too, was clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He praised whenever praise was earned,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; His tones were never sad;<br>He bravely tried, where\u2019er he turned,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; To help men to be glad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Year in, year out, he did his best<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; To lessen spite and hate.<br>With quenchless courage in his breast,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; He fought with stubborn Fate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He labored to increase delight,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Though sorely stricken oft;<br>Men said he lacked the nerve to fight,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And women called him soft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Rock Island Argus, March 23, 1914. No matter how his heart was wrung&nbsp; &nbsp; He kept a smile of cheer;He never had a spiteful tongue;&nbsp; &nbsp; His conscience, too, was clear. He praised whenever praise was earned,&nbsp; &nbsp; His tones were never sad;He bravely tried, where\u2019er he turned,&nbsp; &nbsp; To help men to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034","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=8034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}