{"id":8412,"date":"2022-08-18T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8412"},"modified":"2022-08-18T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T05:00:00","slug":"a-peaceful-hearts-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-peaceful-hearts-desire\/","title":{"rendered":"A Peaceful Heart\u2019s Desire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83030272\/1914-08-18\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\">The Sun, August 18, 1914<\/a>. By C. E. E.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m tired of seeing Mars preempt the center of the stage.<br\/>I\u2019m tired of seeing war news spread across the whole front page;<br\/>I\u2019m wearying of armies, forts and mines and fighting crews.<br\/>I want to see the old familiar headlines in the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of \u201cGerman Shell Fire Sets a Belgian Town Aflame,\u201d<br\/>I\u2019d read of \u201cKansan Victimized by Wire Tapping Game.\u201d<br\/>I see that \u201cThousand Belgians Put a German Corps to Flight,\u201d<br\/>But want to know that \u201cPankhurst Vows She Will Not Eat a Bite.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I learn today that \u201cFrench and German Birdmen Clash in Air,\u201d<br\/>But miss the \u201cActress, Jilted, Sues a Pittsburg Millionaire.\u201d<br\/>What boots it that \u201cItalians Threaten Now to Join the Fray,\u201d<br\/>If I can\u2019t read that \u201cScientist Makes Hens Lay Twice a Day\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>And though it\u2019s true that \u201cRussia Captures Eighty German Spies,\u201d<br\/>I long to learn that \u201cT. R. Stamps Barnes\u2019s Statements Willful Lies.\u201d<br\/>I\u2019m wearying of armies, forts and mines and fighting crews.<br\/>I want to see the old familiar headlines in the news!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Sun, August 18, 1914. By C. E. E. I\u2019m tired of seeing Mars preempt the center of the stage.I\u2019m tired of seeing war news spread across the whole front page;I\u2019m wearying of armies, forts and mines and fighting crews.I want to see the old familiar headlines in the news. Instead of \u201cGerman Shell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8412","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=8412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}