{"id":9645,"date":"2020-10-22T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=321"},"modified":"2020-10-22T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T05:00:00","slug":"his-greatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/his-greatness\/","title":{"rendered":"His Greatness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83030214\/1912-10-22\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\">New York Tribune, October 22, 1912<\/a><\/em>.\n \n\n He didn\u2019t climb the hills of fame,\n \u00a0 But kept the middle ground;\n On history\u2019s pages ne\u2019er his name\n \u00a0 By any will be found.\n But he was brave and he was good,\n \u00a0 And always did his best;\n And through his life he always stood\n \u00a0 Face front to every test.\n \n Go ask his wife if you would know\n \u00a0 The record that he made;\n And to his little children go,\n \u00a0 Ask them how daddy played.\n And then go ask his neighbors, too,\n \u00a0 And hear them sing his praise;\n They\u2019ll tell you he was kind and true,\n \u00a0 That honor marked his ways.\n \n Greatness is not by numbers told,\n \u00a0 Nor always written down\n On history\u2019s pages; all that\u2019s gold\n \u00a0 Goes not into a crown.\n But men are great who day by day\n \u00a0 Are cheerful, kind and true,\n And give their best along life\u2019s way\n \u00a0 Of service to the few.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> He didn\u2019t climb the hills of fame,<br \/>\n   But kept the middle ground;<br \/>\n On history\u2019s pages ne\u2019er his name<br \/>\n   By any will be found.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-9645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-tribune","category-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645","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=9645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}