{"id":8491,"date":"2022-10-09T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8491"},"modified":"2022-10-09T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T05:00:00","slug":"gone-but-not-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/gone-but-not-forgotten\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone But Not Forgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1914-10-09\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Birmingham Age Herald, October 9, 1914<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I knew a certain citizen<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Who wouldn\u2019t take a drink;<br\/>He wouldn\u2019t smoke, he wouldn\u2019t swear,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;He wouldn\u2019t even think<br\/>Of many sorts of wickedness<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That other men commit;<br\/>Among the ultra-pious folk<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;He seemed to make a hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>His prayers to the throne of grace<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Uprose day after day,<br\/>In church he joined the singing when<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The organ \u2018gan to play.<br\/>For years he led a model life,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But when away he went<br\/>The savings bank he\u2019d organized<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Was left without a cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Birmingham Age Herald, October 9, 1914. I knew a certain citizen&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Who wouldn\u2019t take a drink;He wouldn\u2019t smoke, he wouldn\u2019t swear,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;He wouldn\u2019t even thinkOf many sorts of wickedness&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That other men commit;Among the ultra-pious folk&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;He seemed to make a hit. His prayers to the throne of grace&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Uprose day after day,In church he joined the singing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8491","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=8491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}