{"id":8113,"date":"2022-04-20T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8113"},"modified":"2022-04-20T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T05:00:00","slug":"the-prisoner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-prisoner\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prisoner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045433\/1914-04-20\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Washington Herald, April 20, 1914<\/em><\/a><em>. By John Kendrick Bangs.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I keep a special cell for pain<br>Here in my brain<br>And there,<br>Dark days or fair,<br>I let it lie forgotten and alone<br>To feed on its own moan;<br>And then, when all its power to sting is gone,<br>I open the door of memory again<br>And let it pass along the road<br>To some less chill abode;<br>And strange to say,<br>Sometimes when poor old pain has gone away,<br>I find, long after his retreat,<br>The later memory of him is sweet,<br>And in my soul a greater strength appears<br>For that I once in days that were<br>Held Pain a Prisoner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Washington Herald, April 20, 1914. By John Kendrick Bangs. I keep a special cell for painHere in my brainAnd there,Dark days or fair,I let it lie forgotten and aloneTo feed on its own moan;And then, when all its power to sting is gone,I open the door of memory againAnd let it pass along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,23],"tags":[195],"class_list":["post-8113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-washington-herald","tag-john-kendrick-bangs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8113","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=8113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}