{"id":8261,"date":"2022-06-02T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8261"},"modified":"2022-06-02T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T05:00:00","slug":"give-us-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/give-us-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Us Men!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1914-06-02\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Birmingham Age-Herald, June 2, 1914<\/a>. By Oliver Wendell Holmes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGod give us men! A time like this demands<br>Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands;<br>Men whom the lust of lucre does not kill;<br>Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy;<br>Men who possess opinions and a will ;<br>Men who have honor; men who will not lie;<br>Men who can stand before a demagogue<br>And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking;<br>Tall men, uncrowned, who live above the fog,<br>In public duty, and in private thinking;<br>For while the rabble with their thumb-worn creeds,<br>Their large professions, and their little deeds,<br>Mingle in selfish strife, Lo! Freedom weeps;<br>Wrong rules the land, and waiting justice sleeps.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Birmingham Age-Herald, June 2, 1914. By Oliver Wendell Holmes. \u201cGod give us men! A time like this demandsStrong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands;Men whom the lust of lucre does not kill;Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy;Men who possess opinions and a will ;Men who have honor; men who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-8261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald","tag-oliver-wendell-holmes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8261","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=8261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}