{"id":9186,"date":"2023-02-21T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9186"},"modified":"2023-02-21T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T06:00:00","slug":"confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/confidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1915-02-21\/ed-1\/seq-20\/\">Evening Star, February 21, 1915<\/a>. By Philander Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The news is most discouragin\u2019 at Pohick-on-the-Crick.<br\/>The joy is gettin\u2019 thinner an\u2019 the gloom is growin\u2019 thick.<br\/>But underneath the willows there\u2019s a space of ripplin\u2019 stream<br\/>Where the sunlight seems to sparkle with a soft, peculiar gleam.<br\/>The birds come sweetly singin\u2019 to the hours that drift away,<br\/>An\u2019 the great, big world seems peaceful an\u2019 contented for a day.<br\/>You toss a line an\u2019 watch it, with your troubles all forgot,<br\/>An\u2019 it doesn\u2019t make much difference if you catch a fish or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The fish, of course, is mighty large on which your hope is set,<br\/>But it keeps you interested, if a nibble\u2019s all you get.<br\/>Somewhere the world is strugglin\u2019 in the darkness an\u2019 despair,<br\/>An\u2019 perhaps your turn will come to land a hand an\u2019 do your share.<br\/>But we all have a notion that the future is secure,<br\/>No matter what our feelin\u2019s may be called on to endure;<br\/>Fur some day we\u2019ll have time to tie a string onto a stick<br\/>An\u2019 go a-fishin\u2019 once again at Pohick-on-the-Crick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Star, February 21, 1915. By Philander Johnson. The news is most discouragin\u2019 at Pohick-on-the-Crick.The joy is gettin\u2019 thinner an\u2019 the gloom is growin\u2019 thick.But underneath the willows there\u2019s a space of ripplin\u2019 streamWhere the sunlight seems to sparkle with a soft, peculiar gleam.The birds come sweetly singin\u2019 to the hours that drift [&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-9186","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\/9186","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=9186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}