{"id":694,"date":"2021-03-15T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=694"},"modified":"2021-03-15T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T05:00:00","slug":"not-a-cent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/not-a-cent\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Cent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn82016014\/1913-03-15\/ed-1\/seq-14\/\"><em>The Topeka State Journal, March 15, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Thomas F. Porter.<\/em>\n \n\n Happy is the man who is content\n \u00a0 \u00a0 With moderate wealth and store;\n Unhappy he whose mind is bent\n \u00a0 \u00a0 On ever gaining more.\n \n The road of endless greed is long,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The journey dark and rough;\n So he but does himself a wrong\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Who seeks more than enough;\n \n For, with the piling up of wealth,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 There comes the added care,\n That when shall fail his strength and health,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Will every joy impair.\n \n And yet on one the habit grows\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To dig, to drudge, to save;\n And ere a mortal hardly knows\n \u00a0 \u00a0 His call comes from the grave.\n \n Then people wonder and surmise,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 When he has passed from earth;\n And some are startled with surprise\n \u00a0 \u00a0 When told what he was worth.\n \n For, when his will is read, they find,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Whate\u2019er his heart\u2019s intent,\n All that he had he left behind,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Nor took with him a cent.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Happy is the man who is content<br \/>\n     With moderate wealth and store;<br \/>\n Unhappy he whose mind is bent<br \/>\n     On ever gaining more.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-topeka-state-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","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=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}