{"id":9121,"date":"2023-01-20T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9121"},"modified":"2023-01-20T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T06:00:00","slug":"discontent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/discontent\/","title":{"rendered":"Discontent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn89074405\/1915-01-20\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Grand Forks Daily Herald, January 20, 1915<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Formed of the elemental fierce unrest<br\/>That seethes forever in the human breast,<br\/>Coeval with the race of Man am I.<br\/>I seem a curse from which he fain would fly;<br\/>And in his efforts to escape from me<br\/>He pits his might against Immensity,<br\/>And bends the laws of Nature to his will;<br\/>Yet I shall goad him ever on until<br\/>He solve the problem of Infinity<br\/>And read the meaning of life\u2019s mystery.<br\/>Then when he rests on heights as yet untrod,<br\/>And learns that he himself is part of God,<br\/>He\u2019ll know that I first taught him to aspire\u2014<br\/>That I, the Curse, impelled him from the mire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Grand Forks Daily Herald, January 20, 1915. Formed of the elemental fierce unrestThat seethes forever in the human breast,Coeval with the race of Man am I.I seem a curse from which he fain would fly;And in his efforts to escape from meHe pits his might against Immensity,And bends the laws of Nature to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-forks-daily-herald","category-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9121","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=9121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}