{"id":8420,"date":"2022-08-27T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8420"},"modified":"2022-08-27T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T05:00:00","slug":"an-old-battle-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/an-old-battle-field\/","title":{"rendered":"An Old Battle Field"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn91064011\/1914-08-27\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\">Newark Evening Star, August 27, 1914<\/a>. By Frank L. Stanton.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The softest whisperings of the scented South,<br\/>And rust and roses in the cannon\u2019s mouth;<br\/>And, where the thunders of the fight were born,<br\/>The wind\u2019s sweet tenor in the standing corn;<br\/>With song of larks, low lingering in the loam,<br\/>And blue skies bending over love and home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>But still the thought; somewhere, upon the hills,<br\/>Or where the vales ring with the whippoorwills,<br\/>Sad, wistful eyes and broken hearts that beat<br\/>For the loved sound of unreturning feet,<br\/>And when the oaks their leafy banners wave,<br\/>Dream of a battle and an unmarked grave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Newark Evening Star, August 27, 1914. By Frank L. Stanton. The softest whisperings of the scented South,And rust and roses in the cannon\u2019s mouth;And, where the thunders of the fight were born,The wind\u2019s sweet tenor in the standing corn;With song of larks, low lingering in the loam,And blue skies bending over love and [&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":[126],"class_list":["post-8420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newark-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-frank-l-stanton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420","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=8420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}