{"id":6868,"date":"2021-03-05T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=671"},"modified":"2021-03-05T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T06:00:00","slug":"a-simple-prescription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-simple-prescription\/","title":{"rendered":"A Simple Prescription"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1913-03-05\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Rock Island Argus, March 5, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By S. E. Kiser.<\/em>\n \n\n The doctor gazed a while at me and gravely shook his head;\n \u201cYou must not work so hard,\u201d said he, \u201ceat only whole wheat bread;\n Avoid all starchy things and try to take your beefsteak rare;\n Avoid the deadly stuff they fry, keep in the open air,\n And cheer up. Clear your frowns away, put all your cares aside:\n Play golf or tennis every day, or get a horse to ride.\n \n \u201cYou might take three months off and go to Europe or Japan,\n Or take a trip to Mexico; you need a change, old man.\n You have a haggard, weary look, your system\u2019s all run down;\n Go out and loll beside some brook a thousand miles from town.\n Take my advice and rest a while, become a man of ease.\n Quit working and learn how to smile. Three dollars, if you please.\u201d\n \n He could not know how glad I was to get his dear advice,\n Nor that I could not go because I chanced to lack the price;\n He knew not that if for a space I traveled unconcerned\n They would inform me that my place was filled, when I returned.\n By toiling hard and steadily I clung to my position\n And kept those who were dear to me in fairly good condition.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The doctor gazed a while at me and gravely shook his head;<br \/>\n \u201cYou must not work so hard,\u201d said he, \u201ceat only whole wheat bread;<\/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":[271],"class_list":["post-6868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-s-e-kiser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868","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=6868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}