{"id":481,"date":"2020-09-21T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=481"},"modified":"2020-09-21T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T05:00:00","slug":"happy-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/happy-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1912-09-21\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Evening Star, September 21, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Philander Johnson.<\/em>\n \n\n Oh, happy was the childhood hour\n \u00a0 When Father paid the bills\n And left us free to grasp the flower\n \u00a0 That blossomed on the hills!\n Those were the days in which we took\n \u00a0 No thought of taxes high,\n Nor feared the grafter or the crook\n \u00a0 Who might be drawing nigh.\n Three meals per day were always there;\n \u00a0 So was the dwelling place.\n We thought that Father\u2019s greatest care\n \u00a0 Was simply to say grace.\n And so we wandered light and free,\n \u00a0 Without a trace of woe,\n Each had no thoughts save those of glee,\n \u00a0 Unless he stubbed his toe.\n Now greater wisdom bids us pause\n \u00a0 And grateful memory thrills.\n We were so happy then because\n \u00a0 Dear Father paid the bills.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Oh, happy was the childhood hour<br \/>\n   When Father paid the bills<br \/>\n And left us free to grasp the flower<br \/>\n   That blossomed on the hills!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[248,275],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-philander-johnson","tag-shooting-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","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=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}