{"id":7154,"date":"2021-05-28T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7154"},"modified":"2021-05-28T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T05:00:00","slug":"happy-days-for-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/happy-days-for-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Days for Pa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1913-05-28\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Rock Island Argus, May 28, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By S. E. Kiser.<\/em>\n \n\n Pa is feeling rather chipper; every day he wears a smile\n Though he has no public office and keeps working all the while;\n They have not increased his wages, and they never will, I guess,\n But his look is always cheerful and he\u2019s full of hopefulness.\n \n His overcoat is seedy and his pants bag at the knees;\n We are not among the people who can travel overseas;\n The price of living\u2019s higher than it ought to be, \u2019tis true,\n But pa\u2019s clinging to his courage and he takes a hopeful view.\n \n The folks next door have lately had to cut expenses down;\n It seems they\u2019ve been unlucky\u2014it\u2019s the talk all over town;\n They have sold their new electric\u2014ma pretends it was too bad\u2014\n So it seems pa needn\u2019t buy one, and it makes him mighty glad.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Pa is feeling rather chipper; every day he wears a smile<br \/>\n Though he has no public office and keeps working all the while;<\/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-7154","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\/7154","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=7154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}