{"id":7295,"date":"2021-07-18T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7295"},"modified":"2021-07-18T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T05:00:00","slug":"hot-weather-ease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/hot-weather-ease\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Weather Ease"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83016689\/1913-07-18\/ed-1\/seq-12\/\"><em>The Detroit Times, July 18, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>. By Berton Braley.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, bother me not with duty<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And hector me not with work.<br>No possible sum of booty<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Could make me do aught but shirk.<br>The office can go to thunder<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And business can go to pot.<br>I\u2019m going to remain here under<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; The shade of the porch\u2014it\u2019s hot!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Wall Street is in a flurry,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; If Washington\u2019s in a muss,<br>I murmur, \u201cWell, I should worry.\u201d<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; I mutter, \u201cWell, what\u2019s the fuss.\u201d<br>For politics cannot stir me,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; I don\u2019t give a hang for trade,<br>And nothing on earth can spur me<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; To move from my spot of shade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The toilers may all deride me,<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 They say I\u2019m a sloth, I know.<br>But a tinkling pitcher\u2019s beside me<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 And the hammock is swinging slow.<br>There\u2019s no one on earth that has a<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 More absolute sense of ease.<br>Oh, it\u2019s me for the cool piazza<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 And the breath of the lazy breeze!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, bother me not with duty<br \/>\n    And hector me not with work.<br \/>\nNo possible sum of booty<br \/>\n    Could make me do aught but shirk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-7295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-detroit-times","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7295","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=7295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}