{"id":7208,"date":"2021-06-15T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7208"},"modified":"2021-06-15T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T05:00:00","slug":"one-way-to-be-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/one-way-to-be-content\/","title":{"rendered":"One Way to Be Content"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1913-06-15\/ed-1\/seq-28\/\"><em>The Birmingham Age Herald, June 15, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n \n\n A happy hearted citizen\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Went gaily to his work;\n He had no wish to lie in bed\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And no desire to shirk.\n His daily duties brought him cheer\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Because he did them well\n And let no hard luck cast him down,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 No matter what befell.\n \n This happy hearted citizen\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A good example set,\n Who simply had no time, he said,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To cherish vain regret.\n And when his earthly race was run,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Most always with a smile,\n The many years he\u2019d spent in toil\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Seemed just a little while.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A happy hearted citizen<br \/>\n Went gaily to his work;<br \/>\n He had no wish to lie in bed<br \/>\n And no desire to shirk.<\/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-7208","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\/7208","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=7208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}