{"id":499,"date":"2020-09-30T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=499"},"modified":"2020-09-30T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T05:00:00","slug":"the-smiler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-smiler\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smiler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
From the Omaha Daily Bee, September 30, 1912<\/a>.<\/em>\n \n\n There\u2019s an idiotic fellow, whom I meet where\u2019er I go;\n He\u2019s the crazy kind of fellow all the little children know.\n You wouldn\u2019t think him silly from his manner nor his style;\n Still, it seems, he must be foolish, for he always wears a smile.\n \n When the way is long and weary and load is hard to bear;\n When you\u2019re weighted down with trouble and there\u2019s no one seems to care,\n That\u2019s the time this foolish fellow comes a-singing up the road,\n With a word and smile to cheer you and to help you with your load.\n \n With his smiling \u201cBuck up, partner, \u2018cause we\u2019re bound to pull it through;\n Though your load\u2019s too big for one man, it\u2019s a little load for two.\u201d\n And you feel yourself uplifted with the strength to play your part,\n With his arm to aid your body and his smile to brace your heart.\n \n No, he hasn\u2019t got ambition, but his life-work never ends;\n He knows a million people, and he\u2019s got a million friends.\n He doesn\u2019t strive for fame and wealth, he hasn\u2019t got a goal;\n He\u2019s just a simple fellow, with God\u2019s sunshine in his soul.\n \n Yes, he\u2019s just a foolish fellow, with the eyes that cannot see\n All the misery and sadness that are plain to you and me,\n But he knows the joy of living, all that makes the world worth while;\n And I\u2019d like to be as foolish as the man behind the smile.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
 There\u2019s an idiotic fellow, whom I meet where\u2019er I go;
\n He\u2019s the crazy kind of fellow all the little children know.
\n You wouldn\u2019t think him silly from his manner nor his style;
\n Still, it seems, he must be foolish, for he always wears a smile.<\/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-499","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\/499","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=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}