{"id":9366,"date":"2023-06-15T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9366"},"modified":"2023-06-15T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T05:00:00","slug":"the-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn84031081\/1915-06-15\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Albuquerque Morning Journal, June 15, 1915<\/a>. By Wilfred Wilson Gibson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>All day beneath the hurtling shells<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Before my burning eyes<br\/>Hover the dainty demoiselles\u2014<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The peacock dragon flies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Unceasingly they dart and glance<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Above the stagnant stream\u2014<br\/>And I am fighting here in France<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As in a senseless dream\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>A dream of shattering black shells<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That hurtle overhead,<br\/>And dainty dancing demoiselles<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Above the dreamless dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Albuquerque Morning Journal, June 15, 1915. By Wilfred Wilson Gibson. All day beneath the hurtling shells&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Before my burning eyesHover the dainty demoiselles\u2014&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The peacock dragon flies. Unceasingly they dart and glance&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Above the stagnant stream\u2014And I am fighting here in France&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As in a senseless dream\u2014 A dream of shattering black shells&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That hurtle overhead,And dainty dancing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,3],"tags":[313],"class_list":["post-9366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albuquerque-morning-journal","category-newspapers","tag-wilfred-wilson-gibson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9366","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=9366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}