{"id":8046,"date":"2022-03-29T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8046"},"modified":"2022-03-29T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T05:00:00","slug":"the-school-of-difficulty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-school-of-difficulty\/","title":{"rendered":"The School of Difficulty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1914-03-29\/ed-1\/seq-74\/\"><em>Evening Star, March 29, 1914<\/em><\/a><em>. By Harvey S. Irwin.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is not the way to heavenly gain<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Through earthly grief and loss?<br>Rest must be won by toil and pain\u2014<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; The crown repays the cross.<br>As woods when shaken by the breeze<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Take deeper, firmer root;<br>As winter\u2019s frosts but make the trees<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Abound in summer fruit;<br>So every heaven-sent pang and throe<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; That Christian firmness tries<br>But nerves us for our work below<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And forms us for the skies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Star, March 29, 1914. By Harvey S. Irwin. Is not the way to heavenly gain&nbsp; &nbsp; Through earthly grief and loss?Rest must be won by toil and pain\u2014&nbsp; &nbsp; The crown repays the cross.As woods when shaken by the breeze&nbsp; &nbsp; Take deeper, firmer root;As winter\u2019s frosts but make the trees&nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[155],"class_list":["post-8046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-harvey-s-irwin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8046","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=8046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}