{"id":8410,"date":"2022-08-16T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8410"},"modified":"2022-08-16T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:00:00","slug":"children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/children\/","title":{"rendered":"Children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83030272\/1914-08-16\/ed-1\/seq-31\/\">The Sun, August 16, 1914<\/a>. By Lucine Finch<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Mother,<br\/>Why can\u2019t I see the wind?<br\/>My mother,<br\/>Why?<br\/>I see the sky,<br\/>I see the stars,<br\/>I can see the fire,<br\/>The green ocean<br\/>Far as to the sky;<br\/>Why can\u2019t I see the wind?<br\/>My mother,<br\/>Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Oh child,<br\/>I do not know\u2014<br\/>Dear child,<br\/>The wind is\u2014<br\/>Dear,<br\/>I do not know\u2014<br\/>Run now, and play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Mother,<br\/>Why can\u2019t I see my thoughts?<br\/>My mother,<br\/>Why?<br\/>Like birds they fly,<br\/>I feel them go;<br\/>I am the cage,<br\/>They are wild birds<br\/>Reaching to the sky!<br\/>Why can\u2019t I see my thoughts?<br\/>My mother,<br\/>Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, child,<br\/>I do not know\u2014<br\/>Dear child,<br\/>Our thoughts are\u2014<br\/>Dear,<br\/>I do not know\u2014<br\/>Run now, and play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Mother,<br\/>Why can I not see God?<br\/>My mother,<br\/>Why?<br\/>I can see you<br\/>And father dear;<br\/>I can see people<br\/>Oh, everywhere,<br\/>All passing by;<br\/>Why can I not see God?<br\/>My mother,<br\/>Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, child,<br\/>I do not know\u2014<br\/>Dear child,<br\/>God\u2014God is\u2014<br\/>Dear,<br\/>I do not know\u2014<br\/>Run now, and play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Sun, August 16, 1914. By Lucine Finch Mother,Why can\u2019t I see the wind?My mother,Why?I see the sky,I see the stars,I can see the fire,The green oceanFar as to the sky;Why can\u2019t I see the wind?My mother,Why? Oh child,I do not know\u2014Dear child,The wind is\u2014Dear,I do not know\u2014Run now, and play. Mother,Why can\u2019t I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[220],"class_list":["post-8410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-sun","tag-lucine-finch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410","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=8410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}