{"id":382,"date":"2020-10-07T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=382"},"modified":"2020-10-07T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T05:00:00","slug":"much-impressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/much-impressed\/","title":{"rendered":"Much Impressed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1912-10-07\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">Rock Island Argus, October 7, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Duncan M. Smith.<\/em>\n \n\n I took my little hopeful\n \u00a0 And sat him on my knee\n And tried to get the six-year-old\n \u00a0 To take advice from me.\n \u201cI want you,\u201d I said softly,\n \u00a0 \u201cAlways to be polite,\n And with the rude and naughty boys\n \u00a0 You must not scrap and fight.\n \n \u201cWith others do not quarrel\n \u00a0 And do not in your play\n Get angry with another boy\n \u00a0 Who wants to have his way.\n Give in without protesting,\n \u00a0 For you will always find\n That lasting friendships you will win\n \u00a0 By being true and kind.\n \n \u201cThus by your good example\n \u00a0 The other boys will see\n That it is better to be good\n \u00a0 And with their mates agree.\n Should one be so forgetful\n \u00a0 As to be rude or rough\n Turn on your heel and go away\n \u00a0 And he\u2019ll feel bad enough.\u201d\n \n \u2019Twas thus the lesson ended,\n \u00a0 And then I asked him, \u201cNow,\n What would you do if some rude boy\n \u00a0 Should try to pick a row?\u201d\n He thought about a minute,\n \u00a0 Then answered plain and clear:\n \u201cI\u2019ll tell you if you want to know.\n \u00a0 I\u2019d biff him on the ear!\u201d<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I took my little hopeful<br \/>\n   And sat him on my knee<br \/>\n And tried to get the six-year-old<br \/>\n   To take advice from me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-duncan-m-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","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=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}