{"id":8457,"date":"2022-09-18T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8457"},"modified":"2022-09-18T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T05:00:00","slug":"modern-courtship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/modern-courtship\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Courtship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the Omaha Daily Bee, September 18, 1914<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They sat upon a boulder
    That looked toward the sea.
The wild waves washed the pebbly beach;
    The gulls dipped gracefully
To catch the flying, silvery spray,
    But nature had no power
With all her charms to draw one glance
    In this most solemn hour.
They noted not the glorious sun,
    The bright and cloudless skies,
But found a source of pure delight
    Within each other\u2019s eyes.
The minutes and the hours flew by,
    And still they sat alone.
He held her slender fingers
    Tightly clasped within his own.
The sun shone on; the waves rolled high,
    Just as they did before,
But naught saw they of light or shade
    Or heard the ocean\u2019s roar.
At last he whispered, \u201cWill you be
    My love, my bride, my wife,
And walk together hand in hand
    Along the road of life?\u201d
She laid her head upon his breast,
    In manner shy, demure;
Then raised her melting glance to his,
    And softly murmured, \u201cSure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Omaha Daily Bee, September 18, 1914. They sat upon a boulder    That looked toward the sea.The wild waves washed the pebbly beach;    The gulls dipped gracefullyTo catch the flying, silvery spray,    But nature had no powerWith all her charms to draw one glance    In this most solemn hour.They noted not the glorious sun,    The bright and cloudless skies,But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457","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=8457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}