{"id":6848,"date":"2021-03-20T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=704"},"modified":"2021-03-20T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T05:00:00","slug":"do-it-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/do-it-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Do It Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn87093407\/1913-03-20\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Seattle Star, March 20, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Berton Braley.<\/em>\n \n\n If with pleasure you are viewing any work a man is doing,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 If you like him or you love him, tell him now!\n Don\u2019t withhold your approbation till the parson makes oration\n \u00a0 \u00a0 As he lies with snowy lilies o\u2019er his brow;\n For, no matter how you shout it he won\u2019t really care about it,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He won\u2019t know how many teardrops you have shed.\n If you think some praise is due him, now\u2019s the time to slip it to him,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For he cannot read his tombstone when he\u2019s dead!\n More than fame and more than money is the comment kind and sunny\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And the hearty, warm approval of a friend.\n For it gives to life a savor and it makes you stronger, braver,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And it gives you heart and spirit to the end;\n If he earns your praise\u2014bestow it; if you like him, let him know it;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Let the words of true encouragement be said.\n Do not wait till life is over and he\u2019s underneath the clover,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For he cannot read his tombstone when he\u2019s dead!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> If with pleasure you are viewing any work a man is doing,<br \/>\n     If you like him or you love him, tell him now!<br \/>\n Don\u2019t withhold your approbation till the parson makes oration<br \/>\n     As he lies with snowy lilies o\u2019er his brow;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-6848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-seattle-star","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848","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=6848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}