{"id":9642,"date":"2020-10-19T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=314"},"modified":"2020-10-19T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T05:00:00","slug":"contradiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/contradiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Contradiction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1912-10-19\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Evening Star, October 19, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Philander Johnson.<\/em>\n \n\n As orators with words so fair\n \u00a0 And promises so fine\n With eloquence filled all the air\n \u00a0 And thrilled your heart and mine,\n We\u2019d listen for a little while\n \u00a0 Before we turned away\n And murmured with a cynic smile,\n \u00a0 \u201cThey don\u2019t mean all they say.\u201d\n \n The eagerness of good intent\n \u00a0 That kept their hearts so warm\n Led them to promise as they went\n \u00a0 More than they could perform.\n In hope\u2019s glad sunshine they came out\n \u00a0 To make ambition\u2019s hay.\n They never heard our word of doubt,\n \u00a0 \u201cThey can\u2019t mean all they say!\u201d\n \n Now darker banners they unfurl,\n \u00a0 Their words bring strange regret.\n Instead of promises they hurl\n \u00a0 An angry epithet.\n But to our comment old we cling,\n \u00a0 And vow with hearts all gay\n That time its usual change will bring,\n \u00a0 They don\u2019t mean all they say.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> As orators with words so fair<br \/>\n   And promises so fine<br \/>\n With eloquence filled all the air<br \/>\n   And thrilled your heart and mine,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[248,275],"class_list":["post-9642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-philander-johnson","tag-shooting-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9642","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=9642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}