{"id":8178,"date":"2022-05-15T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8178"},"modified":"2022-05-15T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T05:00:00","slug":"the-cruel-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-cruel-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cruel World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1914-05-15\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Rock Island Argus, May 15, 1914<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before him flowery pastures spread,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; He hears a glad brook flow along,<br>And from a branch above his head<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; There falls a sweet June shower song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is mild fragrance in the breeze<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; That blows from orchards far away;<br>The musing cows beneath the trees<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Are being peaceful while they may.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His limbs are straight and young and strong,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; He gazes forth from undimmed eyes,<br>But, thinking that the world\u2019s gone wrong,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; He sees a far-off cloud and sighs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Rock Island Argus, May 15, 1914. Before him flowery pastures spread,&nbsp; &nbsp; He hears a glad brook flow along,And from a branch above his head&nbsp; &nbsp; There falls a sweet June shower song. There is mild fragrance in the breeze&nbsp; &nbsp; That blows from orchards far away;The musing cows beneath 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":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8178","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\/8178","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=8178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}