{"id":830,"date":"2013-09-01T14:40:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T21:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/?p=830"},"modified":"2017-09-06T14:52:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T21:52:42","slug":"0901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/2013\/09\/01\/0901\/","title":{"rendered":"0901"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/images\/092013\/0901.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>0901<br \/>\nThe agony of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defeat<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Edgar Guest<\/p>\n<p>No one is beat till he quits,<br \/>\nNo one is through till he stops,<br \/>\nNo matter how hard Failure hits,<br \/>\nNo matter how often he drops,<br \/>\nA fellow&#8217;s not down till he lies<br \/>\nIn the dust and refuses to rise.<\/p>\n<p>Fate can slam him and bang him around,<br \/>\nAnd batter his frame till he&#8217;s sore,<br \/>\nBut she never can say that he&#8217;s downed<br \/>\nWhile he bobs up serenely for more.<br \/>\nA fellow&#8217;s not dead till he dies.<\/p>\n<button id=\"listenButton1\" class=\"responsivevoice-button\" type=\"button\" value=\"Play\" title=\"ResponsiveVoice Tap to Start\/Stop Speech\"><span>&#128266; Listen to Poem<\/span><\/button>\n        <script>\n            listenButton1.onclick = function(){\n                if(responsiveVoice.isPlaying()){\n                    responsiveVoice.cancel();\n                }else{\n                    responsiveVoice.speak(\"0901 The agony of... Defeat By Edgar Guest No one is beat till he quits, No one is through till he stops, No matter how hard Failure hits, No matter how often he drops, A fellow\\'s not down till he lies In the dust and refuses to rise. Fate can slam him and bang him around, And batter his frame till he\\'s sore, But she never can say that he\\'s downed While he bobs up serenely for more. A fellow\\'s not dead till he dies.\", \"UK English Male\");\n                }\n            };\n        <\/script>\n    \n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=stickpersonpoet\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0901 The agony of&#8230; Defeat By Edgar Guest No one is beat till he quits, No one is through till he stops, No matter how hard Failure hits, No matter how often he drops, A fellow&#8217;s not down till he lies In the dust and refuses to rise. Fate can slam him and bang him &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/2013\/09\/01\/0901\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">0901<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classic","tag-pain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}