{"id":9639,"date":"2020-10-15T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2020-10-15T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T05:00:00","slug":"courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/courage\/","title":{"rendered":"Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83030214\/1912-10-15\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\">New York Tribune, October 15, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Edgar A. Guest.<\/em>\n \n\n Discouraged, eh? The world looks dark,\n \u00a0 And all your hopes have gone astray;\n Your finest shots have missed the mark,\n \u00a0 You\u2019re heartsick and discouraged, eh?\n \n Plans that you built from all went wrong,\n \u00a0 You cannot seem to find the way\n And it seems vain to plod along,\n \u00a0 You\u2019re heartsick and discouraged, eh?\n \n Take heart! Each morning starts anew,\n \u00a0 Return unto the battle line;\n Against far greater odds than you\n \u00a0 Brave men have fought with courage fine.\n \n Despite the buffetings of fate,\n \u00a0 They\u2019ve risen, time and time again,\n To stand, face front and shoulders straight\n \u00a0 As leaders of their fellow men.\n \n And you, now blinded by despair,\n \u00a0 Heartsick and weary of the fight,\n On every hand beset by care,\n \u00a0 Can, if you will, attain the light.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Discouraged, eh? The world looks dark,<br \/>\n   And all your hopes have gone astray;<br \/>\n Your finest shots have missed the mark,<br \/>\n   You\u2019re heartsick and discouraged, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-9639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-tribune","category-newspapers","tag-edgar-a-guest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639","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=9639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}