{"id":8490,"date":"2022-10-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8490"},"modified":"2022-10-08T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T05:00:00","slug":"when-the-wrath-fell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/when-the-wrath-fell\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Wrath Fell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1914-10-08\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Evening Star, October 8, 1914<\/a>. By Philander Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Nobody paid attention<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To the man who gathered wealth.<br\/>Nobody paused to mention<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That his course was that of stealth,<br\/>Till he offered some donations<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For the help of human kind,<br\/>Then the fierce denunciations<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sadly shook his peace of mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>They said his coin was tainted<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And his motives dark and deep,<br\/>Till the pictures that they painted<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Caused him tears and loss of sleep.<br\/>Nobody ever rapped him<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;While he hoarded day by day,<br\/>But, good gracious! How they slapped him<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When he gave the stuff away!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Star, October 8, 1914. By Philander Johnson. Nobody paid attention&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To the man who gathered wealth.Nobody paused to mention&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That his course was that of stealth,Till he offered some donations&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For the help of human kind,Then the fierce denunciations&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sadly shook his peace of mind. They said his coin was tainted&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And his motives dark and deep,Till [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[248],"class_list":["post-8490","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\/8490","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=8490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}