{"id":7265,"date":"2021-07-11T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7265"},"modified":"2021-07-11T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T05:00:00","slug":"start-the-day-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/start-the-day-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Start the Day Right"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn84022770\/1913-07-11\/ed-1\/seq-7\/\"><em>Washington Standard, July 11, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n \n\n Start the day right. When the sun comes to greet you\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Give it a smile for each ray that it sends.\n Shake off the worries that long to defeat you,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Strengthen your faith in yourself and your friends.\n Yesterday\u2019s ghost will be striving to haunt you;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Yesterday\u2019s errors may come to your brain.\n Throw off the worries that trouble and taunt you.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Start the day right; begin over again.\n \n What a brief span is the longest existence,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 One flashing journey from nothing to night!\n Show while you may the old Roman resistance\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Off with your drowsiness\u2014into the fight!\n Never an empire was won by the laggard;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Never a prize was obtained but by worth.\n Heed not the sneers of the misanthropes haggard.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Start the day right and they\u2019ll know you\u2019re on earth.\n \n Start the day right and you\u2019ll find as it passes\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Something to live for and something to love.\n View not the future through indigo glasses.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Note the bright streams and the blue skies above.\n Failure may mock you through years of endeavor,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Fame and success may not come at your will,\n But nothing can baffle a climber forever.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Start the day right and you\u2019re half up the hill.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Start the day right. When the sun comes to greet you<br \/>\n     Give it a smile for each ray that it sends.<br \/>\n Shake off the worries that long to defeat you,<br \/>\n     Strengthen your faith in yourself and your friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-washington-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7265","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=7265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}