{"id":9429,"date":"2023-07-02T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9429"},"modified":"2023-07-02T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T05:00:00","slug":"gentle-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/gentle-revenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentle Revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045389\/1915-07-02\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Richmond Times Dispatch, July 2, 1915<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>When she gave him a smile\u2014<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As she did in the dance\u2014<br\/>It was not done in guile,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Nor with wish to enhance<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;His burning affection;<br\/>But the fact was, it had<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That effect, just the same,<br\/>And the poor foolish lad<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Was so scorched by love\u2019s flame<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;He moped in dejection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Which perceiving, she felt<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;She had played the wrong part,<br\/>And then felt pity melt<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To its kin in her heart\u2014<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A fitting location.<br\/>So this damsel and swain<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Tuned their lives to Love\u2019s lays,<br\/>And walked down Lover\u2019s Lane<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For the rest of their days\u2014<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Grief got a vacation!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Richmond Times Dispatch, July 2, 1915. When she gave him a smile\u2014&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As she did in the dance\u2014It was not done in guile,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Nor with wish to enhance&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;His burning affection;But the fact was, it had&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That effect, just the same,And the poor foolish lad&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Was so scorched by love\u2019s flame&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;He moped in dejection. Which perceiving, she felt&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-richmond-times-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429","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=9429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}