{"id":221,"date":"2020-11-30T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=221"},"modified":"2020-11-30T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T06:00:00","slug":"the-other-fellows-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-other-fellows-fault\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other Fellow&#8217;s Fault"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn99021999\/1912-11-30\/ed-1\/seq-12\/\">Omaha Daily Bee, November 30, 1912<\/a><\/em>.\n \n\n The other fellow\u2019s faults loom big\n \u00a0 \u00a0 There is no doubt of that\n We always see him at his worst\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And have his flaws down pat.\n We\u2019re always quick to recognize\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The weaknesses he\u2019s shown\n But, after all, they\u2019re not so big\n \u00a0 \u00a0 When measured by our own.\n \n If we would take the other chap\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And size him up by us\n And think about the things we\u2019ve done\n \u00a0 \u00a0 When he does so and thus,\n And note the selfish ways we have,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 We might not throw the stone;\n His flaws might not appear so great\n \u00a0 \u00a0 When measured by our own.\n \n It\u2019s mighty easy to map out\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The other fellow\u2019s way,\n To say what virtues he should have,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 What he should do today.\n But we should always bear in mind\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The pitfalls we have known,\n And judge his weaknesses by those\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Decidedly our own.\n \n When we are on life\u2019s level path,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The other chap may be\n Down on the rough and rugged road,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And all those faults we see\n Are, no doubt, faults we too had\n \u00a0 \u00a0 When fighting on alone,\n And maybe, too, they\u2019re very small\n \u00a0 \u00a0 When measured by our own.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The other fellow\u2019s faults loom big<br \/>\n     There is no doubt of that<br \/>\n We always see him at his worst<br \/>\n     And have his flaws down pat.<\/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-221","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\/221","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=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}