{"id":8363,"date":"2022-07-18T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8363"},"modified":"2022-07-18T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T05:00:00","slug":"lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/lying\/","title":{"rendered":"Lying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn91064011\/1914-07-18\/ed-1\/seq-12\/\">Newark Evening Star, July 18, 1914<\/a>. By Edgar A. Guest.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m writing her a letter<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That I\u2019m getting on all right,<br\/>That I\u2019m really feeling better,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And I\u2019m full of vim and fight.<br\/>I\u2019m telling her I\u2019m working<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Every minute of the day,<br\/>And I have no time for shirking<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And I have no time to play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I am telling her that nightly<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I am sitting round the home,<br\/>And that time is passing lightly,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And I\u2019ve no desire to roam.<br\/>I am telling her I\u2019m hoping<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That a month or two they\u2019ll stay<br\/>Where the hillsides green are sloping<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And the little ones can play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I am glad they\u2019re where the breezes<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Gently kiss them as they run,<br\/>And I\u2019m telling her it pleases<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Me to think of all their fun.<br\/>And I write that I\u2019m not lonely,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But it\u2019s all a fearful sham,<br\/>For they\u2019d come back if they only<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Knew how miserable I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>For I miss their sweet caresses<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And I miss their shouts of glee,<br\/>And the empty home depresses<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Now the very soul of me.<br\/>I miss the cry of \u201cpappy\u201d<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;From each roguish little tot.<br\/>I am writing that I\u2019m happy<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But I\u2019ll bet she knows I\u2019m not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Newark Evening Star, July 18, 1914. By Edgar A. Guest. I\u2019m writing her a letter&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That I\u2019m getting on all right,That I\u2019m really feeling better,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And I\u2019m full of vim and fight.I\u2019m telling her I\u2019m working&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Every minute of the day,And I have no time for shirking&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And I have no time to play. I am telling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-8363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newark-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-edgar-a-guest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8363","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=8363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}