{"id":9678,"date":"2021-01-11T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=132"},"modified":"2021-01-11T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T06:00:00","slug":"nirvana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/nirvana\/","title":{"rendered":"Nirvana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1913-01-11\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Evening Star, January 11, 1913<\/a>.\nBy Philander Johnson.<\/em>\n\nJes' sittin' still fur a minute or two,\n    Lettin' the world buzz away,\nAs you welcome the shadows that gather anew,\n    And wait fur the close of the day;\nWatchin' the fire as it flickers an' glows,\n    Hearin' the wind's sullen call,\nAn' not carin' much 'bout how anything goes\u2014\n    Jes' sittin' still an' that's all.\n\nLettin' yer mind drift along with the blaze\n    To follow the sparks as they fly\nOut with the moonlight that fitfully strays\n    Through the clouds that are crossin' the sky;\nOut through the year that is hurrying' fast\n    To where memories sorrow and smile;\nThe toil is repaid by the pleasure at last\n    Of jes' sittin' still fur a while.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jes&#8217; sittin&#8217; still fur a minute or two,<br \/>\n    Lettin&#8217; the world buzz away,<br \/>\nAs you welcome the shadows that gather anew,<br \/>\n    And wait fur the close of the day;<\/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],"class_list":["post-9678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-philander-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678","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=9678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}