{"id":249,"date":"2021-04-05T11:01:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T15:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/flintandfeather\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=249"},"modified":"2022-02-04T09:50:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T14:50:38","slug":"calgary-of-the-plains","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/chapter\/calgary-of-the-plains\/","title":{"raw":"Calgary of the Plains","rendered":"Calgary of the Plains"},"content":{"raw":"Not of the seething cities with their swarming human hives,\r\nTheir fetid airs, their reeking streets, their dwarfed and poisoned lives,\r\nNot of the buried yesterdays, but of the days to be,\r\nThe glory and the gateway of the yellow West is she.\r\n\r\nThe Northern Lights dance down her plains with soft and silvery feet,\r\nThe sunrise gilds her prairies when the dawn and daylight meet;\r\nAlong her level lands the fitful southern breezes sweep,\r\nAnd beyond her western windows the sublime old mountains sleep.\r\n\r\nThe Redman haunts her portals, and the Paleface treads her streets,\r\nThe Indian\u2019s stealthy footstep with the course of commerce meets,\r\nAnd hunters whisper vaguely of the half forgotten tales\r\nOf phantom herds of bison lurking on her midnight trails.\r\n\r\nNot hers the lore of olden lands, their laurels and their bays;\r\nBut what are these, compared to one of all her perfect days?\r\nFor naught can buy the jewel that upon her forehead lies\u2014\r\nThe cloudless sapphire Heaven of her territorial skies.","rendered":"<p>Not of the seething cities with their swarming human hives,<br \/>\nTheir fetid airs, their reeking streets, their dwarfed and poisoned lives,<br \/>\nNot of the buried yesterdays, but of the days to be,<br \/>\nThe glory and the gateway of the yellow West is she.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Lights dance down her plains with soft and silvery feet,<br \/>\nThe sunrise gilds her prairies when the dawn and daylight meet;<br \/>\nAlong her level lands the fitful southern breezes sweep,<br \/>\nAnd beyond her western windows the sublime old mountains sleep.<\/p>\n<p>The Redman haunts her portals, and the Paleface treads her streets,<br \/>\nThe Indian\u2019s stealthy footstep with the course of commerce meets,<br \/>\nAnd hunters whisper vaguely of the half forgotten tales<br \/>\nOf phantom herds of bison lurking on her midnight trails.<\/p>\n<p>Not hers the lore of olden lands, their laurels and their bays;<br \/>\nBut what are these, compared to one of all her perfect days?<br \/>\nFor naught can buy the jewel that upon her forehead lies\u2014<br \/>\nThe cloudless sapphire Heaven of her territorial skies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":18,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-249","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":209,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/249\/revisions\/250"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/209"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/249\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}