{"id":612,"date":"2021-02-20T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=612"},"modified":"2021-02-20T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T06:00:00","slug":"easy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/easy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn82016014\/1913-02-20\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Topeka State Journal, February 20, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Roy K. Moulton.<\/em>\n \n\n It isn\u2019t so hard to be happy\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And have everything that you need\n A yacht and a fine automobile\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Which grinds out a wonderful speed;\n Fine porterhouse steak every evening\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And eggs for your breakfast each morn;\n A fine house and lot in the suburbs\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And clothes that are not patched and worn\n \u00a0A lot of hard coal in the cellar\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A library full of fine books\n A houseful of excellent servants\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Including the finest of cooks\n A trip to the seashore each summer\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And Europe whene\u2019r you would go;\n No,\u00a0 it isn\u2019t so hard to be happy\n \u00a0 \u00a0 If you\u2019ve got nine millions or so.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> It isn\u2019t so hard to be happy<br \/>\n And have everything that you need<br \/>\n A yacht and a fine automobile<br \/>\n Which grinds out a wonderful speed;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[267],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-topeka-state-journal","tag-roy-k-moulton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","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=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}