{"id":1151,"date":"2012-11-06T13:48:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T18:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2013-01-09T11:53:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T16:53:46","slug":"the-poor-voter-on-election-day-john-greenleaf-whittier-1852","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=1151","title":{"rendered":"The Poor Voter on Election Day &#8212; John Greenleaf Whittier (1852)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The proudest now is but my peer,<br \/>\nThe highest not more high;<br \/>\nTo-day, of all the weary year,<br \/>\nA king of men am I.<br \/>\nTo-day alike are great and small,<br \/>\nThe nameless and the known<br \/>\nMy palace is the people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hall,<br \/>\nThe ballot-box my throne!<\/p>\n<p>Who serves to-day upon the list<br \/>\nBeside the served shall stand;<br \/>\nAlike the brown and wrinkled fist,<br \/>\nThe gloved and dainty hand!<br \/>\nThe rich is level with the poor,<br \/>\nThe weak is strong to-day;<br \/>\nAnd sleekest broadcloth counts no more<br \/>\nThan homespun frock of gray.<\/p>\n<p>To-day let pomp and vain pretence<br \/>\nMy stubborn right abide;<br \/>\nI set a plain man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s common sense<br \/>\nAgainst the pedant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pride.<br \/>\nTo-day shall simple manhood try<br \/>\nThe strength of gold and land<br \/>\nThe wide world has not wealth to buy<br \/>\nThe power in my right hand!<\/p>\n<p>While there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a grief to seek redress,<br \/>\nOr balance to adjust,<br \/>\nWhere weighs our living manhood less<br \/>\nThan Mammon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vilest dust, \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nWhile there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a right to need my vote<br \/>\nA wrong to sweep away,<br \/>\nUp! clouted knee and ragged coat!<br \/>\nA man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a man to-day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proudest now is but my peer, The highest not more high; To-day, of all the weary year, A king of men am I. To-day alike are great and small, The nameless and the known My palace is the people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hall, The ballot-box my throne! Who serves to-day upon the list Beside the served shall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}