{"id":8947,"date":"2022-12-27T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8947"},"modified":"2022-12-27T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T06:00:00","slug":"the-battle-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-battle-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83030272\/1914-12-27\/ed-1\/seq-57\/\">The Sun, December 27, 1914<\/a>. By McLandburgh Wilson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are columns to be riven<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In the very face of hell,<br>And the wild dumb beasts are driven<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0To their doom of shot and shell.<br>But above the shriek of battle<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And the chargers\u2019 dying woe<br>Sounds the lowing of the cattle<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In a manger long ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is midnight on the nations,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;There is hate instead of love.<br>And the guns\u2019 reverberations<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Shake the vaulted skies above.<br>But beyond the thunders ringing<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As the foe replies to foe<br>We can hear the angels singing<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;On a midnight long ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Sun, December 27, 1914. By McLandburgh Wilson. There are columns to be riven\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In the very face of hell,And the wild dumb beasts are driven\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0To their doom of shot and shell.But above the shriek of battle\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And the chargers\u2019 dying woeSounds the lowing of the cattle\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In a manger long ago. There is midnight on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[235],"class_list":["post-8947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-sun","tag-mclandburgh-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947","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=8947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}