{"id":8916,"date":"2020-12-17T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=5"},"modified":"2020-12-17T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T01:00:00","slug":"5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/5-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn87093407\/1912-12-17\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\">The Seattle Star, December 17, 1912<\/a>. By Berton Braley.<\/em>\n \n\n I\u2019m glad I\u2019m young and fond of youthful laughter,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Finding much joy in all this wondrous earth;\n My heart a house\u2014filled up from floor to rafter\n &nbsp; &nbsp; With love of life and light and gentle mirth\u2014\n I\u2019m glad I\u2019m young, with eyes that still can twinkle,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; With ears that pleasure when the songs are sung,\n And lips that still recall the way to crinkle\n &nbsp; &nbsp; At jest and whimsy\u2014ah, I\u2019m glad I\u2019m young!\n \n\n I\u2019m glad I\u2019m young, although my hair has whitened\n &nbsp; &nbsp; And I am near my three-score years and ten;\n Youth in my heart has kept my spirits lightened,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; The ways of youth are still within my ken;\n And if I cannot dance\u2014I watch and listen,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Thinking of memories to which I\u2019ve clung;\n My blood still leaps, my eyes are still aglisten,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; And, though I\u2019m old, I\u2019m glad that I am young!\n \n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I\u2019m glad I\u2019m young and fond of youthful laughter,<br \/>\n     Finding much joy in all this wondrous earth;<br \/>\n My heart a house\u2014filled up from floor to rafter<br \/>\n     With love of life and light and gentle mirth\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-8916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-seattle-star","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8916","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=8916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}