{"id":9598,"date":"2023-08-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9598"},"modified":"2023-08-01T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T05:00:00","slug":"remarriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/remarriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Remarriage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn84031081\/1915-08-01\/ed-1\/seq-14\/\">Albuquerque Morning Journal, August 1, 1915<\/a>. By Jane Burr.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>It seemed so wonder-sweet at last to come back home to him\u2014<br\/>My whole soul full of passion and my tired eyes tense and dim;<br\/>He touched my fingers lightly in that senseless, jostling crowd,<br\/>But the choruses within us both were singing long and loud!<br\/>His lips ran on of country-folk, of trains and motor boats,<br\/>But all the time our sobbing hearts were beating in our throats.<br\/>The highway sped beside us with the springtime in the trees,<br\/>But both the hungry hearts in us were sighing with the breeze.<br\/>We looked into each other\u2019s eyes and knew that pain was done\u2014<br\/>That life had thwacked and pummeled us, but we at last had won.<br\/>And who was I to threaten fate and shudder at the cost?<br\/>And what cared I for women-folk that he had loved and lost?<br\/>And what to him were other lands and smiles and laughs of men?<br\/>The only thing that counted was that we were one again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Albuquerque Morning Journal, August 1, 1915. By Jane Burr. It seemed so wonder-sweet at last to come back home to him\u2014My whole soul full of passion and my tired eyes tense and dim;He touched my fingers lightly in that senseless, jostling crowd,But the choruses within us both were singing long and loud!His lips [&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":[],"class_list":["post-9598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albuquerque-morning-journal","category-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9598","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=9598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}