{"id":1493,"date":"2014-06-01T12:08:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T17:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2014-06-01T12:08:17","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T17:08:17","slug":"to-miss-neva-johnston-1889","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/to-miss-neva-johnston-1889\/","title":{"rendered":"To Miss Neva Johnston (1889)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By Mrs. Anna N. IRWIN<\/p>\n<p>Thou beautiful enchantress! of such bewitching manners and a lovely brunette, whose silken hair of raven dye, and expressive eyes of jet; your dimpled, rosy cheeks and thy coral lips add quite a charm to your beauty. \u00a0May thy presence gild the gayest walks of life, and in after years, may you have the traces of your younger self. \u00a0When matchless in your personal grace, still linger the adornment of perfect mould. \u00a0May your life be fragrant with good deeds, and the savor of a consecrated existence, and when you die may the coming of myriads of spirits, who guard the gates of heaven, throw open the golden gem set portals for your entrance.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Source: Roanoke Beacon, \u00a020 September\u00a01889. \u00a0Available online at\u00a0<a style=\"color: #a4a4a4;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalnc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">digitalnc.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mrs. Anna N. IRWIN Thou beautiful enchantress! of such bewitching manners and a lovely brunette, whose silken hair of raven dye, and expressive eyes of jet; your dimpled, rosy cheeks and thy coral lips add quite a charm to your beauty. \u00a0May thy presence gild the gayest walks of life, and in after years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[1025,77],"tags":[1315],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roanoke-beacon","category-washington","tag-johnston-neva"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CY8G-o5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}