{"id":152946,"date":"2022-12-19T11:27:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T19:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=152946"},"modified":"2022-12-19T11:27:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T19:27:13","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-john-greenleaf-whittier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=152946","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from John Greenleaf Whittier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen things go wrong, as they sometimes will,<br \/>\nWhen the road you\u2019re trudging seems all uphill,<br \/>\nWhen the funds are low and the debts are high,<br \/>\nAnd you want to smile, but you have to sigh,<br \/>\nWhen care is pressing you down a bit,<br \/>\nRest, if you must, but don\u2019t you quit.<\/p>\n<p>Life is queer with its twists and turns,<br \/>\nAs every one of us sometimes learns,<br \/>\nAnd many a failure turns about,<br \/>\nWhen he might have won had he stuck it out;<br \/>\nDon\u2019t give up though the pace seems slow-<br \/>\nYou may succeed with another blow.<\/p>\n<p>Often the goal is nearer than,<br \/>\nIt seems to a faint and faltering man,<br \/>\nOften the struggler has given up,<br \/>\nWhen he might have captured the victor\u2019s cup,<br \/>\nAnd he learned too late when the night slipped down,<br \/>\nHow close he was to the golden crown.<\/p>\n<p>Success is failure turned inside out-<br \/>\nThe silver tint of the clouds of doubt,<br \/>\nAnd you never can tell how close you are,<br \/>\nIt may be near when it seems so far,<br \/>\nSo stick to the fight when you\u2019re hardest hit-<br \/>\nIt\u2019s when things seem worst that you must not quit\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Greenleaf_Whittier\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/John_Greenleaf_Whittier_BPL_ambrotype_c1840-60-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"330\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-152947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/John_Greenleaf_Whittier_BPL_ambrotype_c1840-60-crop.jpg 220w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/John_Greenleaf_Whittier_BPL_ambrotype_c1840-60-crop-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you\u2019re trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest, if you must, but don\u2019t you quit. Life is queer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/John_Greenleaf_Whittier_BPL_ambrotype_c1840-60-crop.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152948,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152946\/revisions\/152948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/152947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}