{"id":8814,"date":"2022-11-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8814"},"modified":"2022-11-24T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T06:00:00","slug":"money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/money\/","title":{"rendered":"Money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn91064011\/1914-11-24\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\">Newark Evening Star, November 24, 1914<\/a>. By Edgar A. Guest.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I would like to have money and all it will buy,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But I never will lie to obtain it;<br\/>For wealth I am eager and ready to try,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But there\u2019s much that I won\u2019t do to gain it.<br\/>I won\u2019t spend my life in a money-mad chase,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And I\u2019ll never work children to win it;<br\/>I won\u2019t interfere with another man\u2019s race,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Though millions, perhaps, may be in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>There are prosperous things that are crusted with shame<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That I vow I will never engage in.<br\/>There is many a crooked and dishonest game<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With a large and a glittering wage in,<br\/>But I want to walk out with my head held erect,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Nor bow it and sneakingly turn it;<br\/>Above all your money I place self-respect;<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I\u2019m eager for gold\u2014but I\u2019ll earn it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Newark Evening Star, November 24, 1914. By Edgar A. Guest. I would like to have money and all it will buy,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But I never will lie to obtain it;For wealth I am eager and ready to try,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But there\u2019s much that I won\u2019t do to gain it.I won\u2019t spend my life in a money-mad chase,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-8814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newark-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-edgar-a-guest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814","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=8814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}