{"id":9331,"date":"2023-05-22T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9331"},"modified":"2023-05-22T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T05:00:00","slug":"war-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/war-5\/","title":{"rendered":"War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn91064011\/1915-05-22\/ed-1\/seq-14\/\">Newark Evening Star, May 22, 1915<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>War is hell, no matter what<br\/>The fire within that makes it hot!<br\/>Masters, by their devious ways<br\/>Light the red, destructive blaze!<br\/>Talk of God and righteousness;<br\/>What are they in this distress?<br\/>Talk about a soldier\u2019s fame;<br\/>Talk about the glory game;<br\/>Tell us it is good to die<br\/>That a flag may float on high;<br\/>Tell us lofty sentiments<br\/>Grow from blood and pestilence;<br\/>Tell us corpses, strewn around<br\/>Change the soil to hallowed ground;<br\/>Tell us burning houses light<br\/>Straying patriots toward the right;<br\/>Tell us there is cause for cheers<br\/>In the women\u2019s bitter tears;<br\/>Tell us starving children wail<br\/>Only when their armies fail;<br\/>Tell us how great victories bless<br\/>The widows and the fatherless;<br\/>Tell us that the men who died<br\/>Are the country\u2019s joy and pride;<br\/>Tell us\u2014<br\/>What you please to tell<br\/>The simple truth is<br\/>War is hell!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Newark Evening Star, May 22, 1915. War is hell, no matter whatThe fire within that makes it hot!Masters, by their devious waysLight the red, destructive blaze!Talk of God and righteousness;What are they in this distress?Talk about a soldier\u2019s fame;Talk about the glory game;Tell us it is good to dieThat a flag may float [&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":[],"class_list":["post-9331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newark-evening-star","category-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9331","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=9331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}