{"id":8326,"date":"2022-06-25T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8326"},"modified":"2022-06-25T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T05:00:00","slug":"an-impractical-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/an-impractical-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"An Impractical Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1914-06-25\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Evening Star, June 25, 1914<\/a>. By Philander Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The Oriental dreams about a future blissful state\u2014<br\/>Nirvana, which will find him all oblivious to fate.<br\/>Mohammed gave his followers a heaven of their own,<br\/>Which those with our ideas are inclined to let alone.<br\/>There is a heaven for each mortal striving here below;<br\/>For some the pace is rapid and some want it rather slow.<br\/>I fear my own ideal to a scanty height ascends\u2014<br\/>Just let me sit around addressing post cards to my friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a gentle satisfaction that is never known to fail<br\/>In taking up your pen and sending scenery by mail;<br\/>Or if a certain taste for art or humor you\u2019d display,<br\/>You can find a funny jingle or a picture bluntly gay.<br\/>When weary of this mortal strife, oh, let me find a spot<br\/>Where I can scratch a line about the climate, cool or hot,<br\/>And somehow, o\u2019er the distance which its strange enchantment lends,<br\/>Devote myself to sending picture cards to all my friends!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Star, June 25, 1914. By Philander Johnson. The Oriental dreams about a future blissful state\u2014Nirvana, which will find him all oblivious to fate.Mohammed gave his followers a heaven of their own,Which those with our ideas are inclined to let alone.There is a heaven for each mortal striving here below;For some the pace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[248],"class_list":["post-8326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-philander-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8326","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=8326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}