{"id":9255,"date":"2023-04-05T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9255"},"modified":"2023-04-05T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T05:00:00","slug":"a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-man\/","title":{"rendered":"A Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn91064011\/1915-04-05\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\">Newark Evening Star, April 5, 1915<\/a>. By William H. Maxwell.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Though my face is black, though I\u2019m despised;<br\/>Though scorn for me doth leap from eyes,<br\/>Though hindered in life from doing my part,<br\/>Still I am human, with a human\u2019s heart.<br\/>Rebuffed and reviled, I\u2019m hated and abused;<br\/>The inalienable rights I am refused.<br\/>I am lover of peace, I strive to serve<br\/>While man refuses me that I deserve.<br\/>Earth\u2019s sinners have strayed from Christ\u2019s great plan,<br\/>And my hurt heart rebels, for I am a man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Newark Evening Star, April 5, 1915. By William H. Maxwell. Though my face is black, though I\u2019m despised;Though scorn for me doth leap from eyes,Though hindered in life from doing my part,Still I am human, with a human\u2019s heart.Rebuffed and reviled, I\u2019m hated and abused;The inalienable rights I am refused.I am lover of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[323],"class_list":["post-9255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newark-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-william-h-maxwell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255","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=9255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}