{"id":8816,"date":"2022-11-26T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8816"},"modified":"2022-11-26T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T06:00:00","slug":"should-not-be-overlooked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/should-not-be-overlooked\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Not Be Overlooked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1914-11-26\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Evening Star, November 26, 1914<\/a>. By Philander Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>A man and his wife in a little back room,<br\/>Who hadn\u2019t an oil stove to lighten the gloom,<br\/>Whose children were learning to ask with a sob<br\/>The reason why father was out of a job,<br\/>Beheld from the window a well-laden dray<br\/>With gifts for the sufferers far, far away.<br\/>\u201cI am tempted,\u201d the woman explained, with a moan,<br\/>\u201cTo wish ourselves there, where the want is well known.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>A generous thrill sets the heart all aglow<br\/>For the sorrows of people we never may know.<br\/>Like astronomers searching the stars far away,<br\/>Regardless of earth and our own little day,<br\/>The distant and strange we would fain understand,<br\/>Regardless of problems that lie close at hand\u2014<br\/>For instance, those folks in the little back room,<br\/>Who shiver and hunger up there in the gloom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Star, November 26, 1914. By Philander Johnson. A man and his wife in a little back room,Who hadn\u2019t an oil stove to lighten the gloom,Whose children were learning to ask with a sobThe reason why father was out of a job,Beheld from the window a well-laden drayWith gifts for the sufferers far, [&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-8816","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\/8816","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=8816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}