{"id":8379,"date":"2022-07-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8379"},"modified":"2022-07-23T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T05:00:00","slug":"kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/kindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1914-07-23\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">Rock Island Argus, July 23, 1914<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>His head was bald and wrinkles hung<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In folds beneath his chin;<br\/>But, fancying his look was young,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;He drew his waist-band in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>His shoulders drooped, his step was slow,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;His sight was growing dim;<br\/>He thought the knowledge of it, though,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Belonged alone to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I did not tell him that I knew,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Nor hint that I could see;<br\/>It may be that some morning you<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Will be as kind to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Rock Island Argus, July 23, 1914. His head was bald and wrinkles hung&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In folds beneath his chin;But, fancying his look was young,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;He drew his waist-band in. His shoulders drooped, his step was slow,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;His sight was growing dim;He thought the knowledge of it, though,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Belonged alone to him. I did not tell him that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8379","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\/8379","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=8379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}