{"id":9677,"date":"2021-01-09T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=128"},"modified":"2021-01-09T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T06:00:00","slug":"i-will-not-doubt-my-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/i-will-not-doubt-my-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"I Will Not Doubt My Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85066387\/1913-01-09\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\"><em>The San Francisco Call, January 9, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n \n\n I will not learn to doubt my kind.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 If bread is poison, what is food?\n \u00a0 \u00a0 If man is evil, what is good?\n I\u2019ll cultivate a friendly mind.\n \n I see not far, but this I see:\n \u00a0 \u00a0 If man is false, then naught is true;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 If faith is not the golden clue\n To life, then all is mystery.\n \n I know not much, but this I know:\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That not in hermit\u2019s calm retreat,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 But in the storied, busy street\n The angels most do come and go.\n \n Who to the infinite would rise\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Should know this one thing ere he starts:\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That all its steps are human hearts;\n To love mankind is to be wise.\n \n I will not learn to doubt my kind.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 If man is false, then false am I;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 If on myself I can\u2019t rely,\n Then where shall faith a foothold find?<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I will not learn to doubt my kind.<br \/>\n     If bread is poison, what is food?<br \/>\n     If man is evil, what is good?<br \/>\n I\u2019ll cultivate a friendly mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-san-francisco-call"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9677","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=9677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}