{"id":7068,"date":"2021-04-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7068"},"modified":"2021-04-24T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T05:00:00","slug":"it-pays-to-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/it-pays-to-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"It Pays to Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1913-04-24\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Rock Island Argus, April 24, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By S. E. Kiser.<\/em>\n \n\n Sim Watson\u2019s stock of wit was small,\n But he let on he knew it all;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He held his head up mighty high;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The word he spoke the most was \u201cI;\u201d\n He had a large amount of gall,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And never let a chance go by\n Whenever he was in a crowd\n To make his conversation loud.\n \n You\u2019d hear his voice above the rest\n He\u2019d strut and he\u2019d stick out his chest\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He never \u201cguessed,\u201d he always KNEW;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Or, leastwise, he pretended to;\n He always seemed to worry lest\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He might be hidden from the view;\n When taller men than Sim were there\n You\u2019d see him standin\u2019 on a chair.\n \n We all knew his talk was guff,\n That he was puttin\u2019 up a bluff,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And yet, somehow, we kind of got\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To thinkin\u2019 that he knew a lot;\n The jokes he told were old and tough\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Most of them tales that we\u2019d forgot\u2014\n But still we\u2019d laugh at what he said,\n And so his reputation spread.\n \n Well, as I see the case today,\n Sim taught a lesson, anyway;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Your stock of knowledge may be small,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 But don\u2019t stand back against the wall\n And listen to what others say.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Speak up and claim to know it all;\n Most people will believe you do\u2014\n The wiser ones are mighty few.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Sim Watson\u2019s stock of wit was small,<br \/>\n But he let on he knew it all;<br \/>\n     He held his head up mighty high;<br \/>\n     The word he spoke the most was \u201cI;\u201d<\/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-7068","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\/7068","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=7068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}