{"id":2437,"date":"2013-04-29T05:50:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T09:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=2437"},"modified":"2013-04-28T20:53:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T00:53:12","slug":"determination-by-edgar-guest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=2437","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDetermination\u201d, by Edgar Guest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My poem of the week this week is another selection from Edgar Guest. My boys are to recite it this morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDetermination\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll see it through, whate\u2019er the danger be.<br \/>\nOne death is all that God assigns to me.<br \/>\nI\u2019ll stand erect against the odds and shout:<br \/>\n\u201cI may be whipped, but will not turn about!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I will not play the coward! Fail I may,<br \/>\nBut at the post of duty I will stay.<br \/>\nNor dread of loss, nor fear of being hurt,<br \/>\nNor softening pride shall tempt me to desert.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll play the man! What if the way seems long?<br \/>\nI will not whimper that all care is wrong.<br \/>\nBlunder I may, but none shall ever cry<br \/>\nI died a failure, since I would not try.<\/p>\n<p>-from Life\u2019s Highway, by Edgar A. Guest (Chicago: The Reilly and Lee Co., 1933), 28<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is a<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/10mbUk7\"> link to several of Guest&#8217;s works at Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My poem of the week this week is another selection from Edgar Guest. My boys are to recite it this morning. \u201cDetermination\u201d I\u2019ll see it through, whate\u2019er the danger be. One death is all that God assigns to me. I\u2019ll stand erect against the odds and shout: \u201cI may be whipped, but will not turn &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=2437\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;\u201cDetermination\u201d, by Edgar Guest&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,261],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437\/revisions\/2438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}