{"id":8488,"date":"2022-10-07T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8488"},"modified":"2022-10-07T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T05:00:00","slug":"insufficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/insufficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Insufficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1914-10-07\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Evening Star, October 7, 1914<\/a>. By Philander Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If talk alone would do the trick,<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What vast improvements we would see!<br>We\u2019d save the sinful and the sick,<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And fill the world with honest glee.<br>From every fault we would be freed,<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And midst the generous acclaim,<br>Ambition and his brother Greed<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Would hide their heads in sorrowing shame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gay banners would not be unfurled<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To glorify the march of Death.<br>We would not see a struggling world<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Half stifled by the cannon\u2019s breath.<br>We\u2019d make our resolutions high,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And make them so that they would stick.<br>Men would not curse nor women cry<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If talk alone would do the trick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Star, October 7, 1914. By Philander Johnson. If talk alone would do the trick,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What vast improvements we would see!We\u2019d save the sinful and the sick,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And fill the world with honest glee.From every fault we would be freed,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And midst the generous acclaim,Ambition and his brother Greed\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Would hide their heads in sorrowing shame. Gay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[248],"class_list":["post-8488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-philander-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488","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=8488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}