{"id":6871,"date":"2021-03-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=677"},"modified":"2021-03-08T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T06:00:00","slug":"a-philosopher-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-philosopher-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Philosopher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1913-03-08\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Birmingham Age-Herald, March 8, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n \n\n There lived a happy man one time\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Who ne\u2019er was known to sigh;\n He simply spat tobacco juice\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And watched the world go by.\n \n In winter time he sought a stove,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 In summer by a stream\n He stretched himself in careless ease,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Well pleased to rest and dream.\n \n The busy turmoil of this life\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Did not appeal to him;\n He had no brilliant plans mapped out\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For keeping \u201cin the swim.\u201d\n \n The song of birds was sweet to hear,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He loved the skies of blue\n And when the sun beamed on the earth\n \u00a0 \u00a0 It warmed him through and through.\n \n \u201cA worthless chap,\u201d some people said,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Who did not understand,\n Merely because he scorned to work\n \u00a0 \u00a0 With head or foot or hand.\n \n But life was passing sweet to him,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And though without a cent,\n He often laughed at millionaires\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Who knew far less content.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> There lived a happy man one time<br \/>\n     Who ne\u2019er was known to sigh;<br \/>\n He simply spat tobacco juice<br \/>\n     And watched the world go by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871","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=6871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}