{"id":198,"date":"2020-11-19T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2020-11-19T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T06:00:00","slug":"optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/optimism\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn99021999\/1912-11-19\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">Omaha Daily Bee, November 19, 1912<\/a><\/em>.\n \n\n Never heered him blame the world\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Fer the troubles that it brought\n Never heered him rail at life\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Or express a gloomy thought\n Seen it rainin\u2019 pitchforks, when\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Outside labor he had planned\n All he said wuz: \u201cAfter this\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Won\u2019t the sun be simply grand?\u201d\n \n Seen his shoulders high with care\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Didn\u2019t know which way to turn\n Troubles, troubles everywhere\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Never, far as I can learn\n Wailed an\u2019 whimpered at his fate\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Took \u2018em smiling, one by one\n Telling folks: \u201cWhen these are past\n \u00a0 \u00a0 What comes next\u2019ll jes\u2019 be fun.\u201d\n \n Seen him to the hubs in mud\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Wagon stuck an\u2019 hosses tired\n Never growled about the road\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Never kicked \u2018coz he was mired\n Rested for a while an\u2019 said\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To the hosses: \u201cNever mind,\n Jes\u2019 a rod or two ahead\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Easier goin\u2019 we shall find.\u201d\n \n Seems his woes appealed to him\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Jes\u2019 as sugar does to boys\n Used \u2018em too, in jes\u2019 that way\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Made \u2018em sweeten up his joys.\n Allus lookin\u2019 jes\u2019 beyond\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The edge of trouble to the day\n (Havin\u2019 known the pangs o\u2019 strife)\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He\u2019d appreciate his pay.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Never heered him blame the world<br \/>\n     Fer the troubles that it brought<br \/>\n Never heered him rail at life<br \/>\n     Or express a gloomy thought<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}