{"id":9418,"date":"2023-06-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9418"},"modified":"2023-06-23T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T05:00:00","slug":"a-slave-of-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-slave-of-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"A Slave of the City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1915-06-23\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Birmingham Age Herald, June 23, 1915<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>His heart dwells in fair country lanes,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The pleasant rural places,<br\/>Where days go by as in a dream<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And no one ever races<br\/>In maddened quest of fame and wealth,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Unmoved by love or pity,<br\/>And tramples weaker brothers down,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As folks do in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>His heart dwells in the peaceful realm<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of meadow, hill and dale,<br\/>Where smoky billows never stain<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The cloud-ships as they sail,<br\/>And where there\u2019s much that\u2019s more worth while<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Than worldly place and power,<br\/>And something of God\u2019s plan is taught<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;By every wayside flower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Birmingham Age Herald, June 23, 1915. His heart dwells in fair country lanes,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The pleasant rural places,Where days go by as in a dream&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And no one ever racesIn maddened quest of fame and wealth,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Unmoved by love or pity,And tramples weaker brothers down,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As folks do in the city. His heart dwells in the peaceful realm&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;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":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418","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=9418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}