{"id":8395,"date":"2022-08-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8395"},"modified":"2022-08-01T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T05:00:00","slug":"a-chance-to-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-chance-to-help\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chance to Help"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1914-08-01\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Birmingham Age Herald, August 1, 1914<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>This life is full of ups and downs<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That fill us with dismay;<br\/>For one whom fickle fortune crowns<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A thousand pass away<br\/>Unhonored and unsung, without<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Regard for years of toil<br\/>They spend amid the rabble rout,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In heartache and turmoil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>And yet, despite these odds so great,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We know this much is so;<br\/>A man, no matter what his fate,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If high, forsooth, or low,<br\/>Can make some other mortal glad<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And shed a ray of cheer,<br\/>And prove this world is not so bad<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As often doth appear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Birmingham Age Herald, August 1, 1914. This life is full of ups and downs&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That fill us with dismay;For one whom fickle fortune crowns&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A thousand pass awayUnhonored and unsung, without&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Regard for years of toilThey spend amid the rabble rout,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In heartache and turmoil. And yet, despite these odds so great,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We know this much is so;A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395","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=8395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}