{"id":8559,"date":"2022-10-21T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8559"},"modified":"2022-10-21T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T05:00:00","slug":"a-great-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-great-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"A Great Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1914-10-21\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Birmingham Age Herald, October 21, 1914<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>An Emporer went to the front,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With colors proudly flying;<br\/>His soldiers bore the battle\u2019s brunt,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The wounded and the dying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Upon a hill he viewed the scene,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Beyond the range of firing,<br\/>Or telephoned his troopers keen<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With energy untiring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>At noon he scarcely stopped to take<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A cup o\u2019 tea to warm him,<br\/>Brewed by a chef too prone to quake<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Lest anything should harm him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The shades of night came down ere long<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And closed the bloody battle,<br\/>And quiet reigned the hosts among,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Save for the foe\u2019s death rattle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Informed the victory was won,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The monarch\u2019s heart grew lighter<br\/>And much he plumed himself upon<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;His prowess as a fighter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Birmingham Age Herald, October 21, 1914. An Emporer went to the front,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With colors proudly flying;His soldiers bore the battle\u2019s brunt,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The wounded and the dying. Upon a hill he viewed the scene,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Beyond the range of firing,Or telephoned his troopers keen&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With energy untiring. At noon he scarcely stopped to take&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A cup o\u2019 tea to warm [&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-8559","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\/8559","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=8559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}