{"id":9312,"date":"2023-05-12T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9312"},"modified":"2023-05-12T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T05:00:00","slug":"the-night-and-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-night-and-i\/","title":{"rendered":"The Night and I"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045211\/1915-05-12\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\">Evening Public Ledger, May 12, 1915<\/a>. By James Stephens.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The night was creeping on the ground,<br\/>She crept along without a sound<br\/>Until she reached the tree, and then<br\/>She covered it, and stole again<br\/>Along the grass up to the wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I heard the rustle of her shawl<br\/>Inside the room where I was hid;<br\/>But no matter what she did<br\/>To everything that was without,<br\/>She could not put my candle out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>So I peeped at the night, and she<br\/>Stared back solemnly at me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Public Ledger, May 12, 1915. By James Stephens. The night was creeping on the ground,She crept along without a soundUntil she reached the tree, and thenShe covered it, and stole againAlong the grass up to the wall. I heard the rustle of her shawlInside the room where I was hid;But no matter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,3],"tags":[184],"class_list":["post-9312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-public-ledger","category-newspapers","tag-james-stephens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9312","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=9312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}