{"id":8451,"date":"2022-09-12T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8451"},"modified":"2022-09-12T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T05:00:00","slug":"foolish-pity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/foolish-pity\/","title":{"rendered":"Foolish Pity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1914-09-12\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">Rock Island Argus, September 12, 1914<\/a>. By Henry Howland.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Men pitied him because he was so blind.<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;They wondered why he neither saw nor guessed;<br\/>His wife had woeful narrowness of mind,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And meager were the charms that she possessed.<br\/>To petty jealousies she grimly clung,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And there was venom on her busy tongue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Men pitied him because he lacked the wit<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To see how shamefully he was betrayed,<br\/>Because he was content to meekly sit<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In silence while her meanness was displayed,<br\/>Because through spite and jealousy and hate<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;She caused his friends to leave him to his fate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Men pitied him because he lacked the heart<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To suffer through her tyranny no more;<br\/>But they were foolish thus to take his part,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To think his case was one they might deplore;<br\/>Within his corner silently he sat<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And thought her something to be marveled at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Rock Island Argus, September 12, 1914. By Henry Howland. Men pitied him because he was so blind.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;They wondered why he neither saw nor guessed;His wife had woeful narrowness of mind,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And meager were the charms that she possessed.To petty jealousies she grimly clung,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And there was venom on her busy tongue. Men pitied him because [&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":[161],"class_list":["post-8451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-henry-howland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8451","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=8451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}