{"id":7506,"date":"2021-09-20T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7506"},"modified":"2021-09-20T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T05:00:00","slug":"the-grouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-grouch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grouch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn87093407\/1913-09-20\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Seattle Star, September 20, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>. By Berton Braley.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The world\u2019s a rotten hole,<br>It is, upon my soul,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; No place to live in;<br>There\u2019s no one on the square<br>And people everywhere<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; By greed are driven.<br>I haven\u2019t any vim or real ambition<br>And all my plans are going to perdition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The weather\u2019s on the bum,<br>The future\u2019s looking glum,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Fate crowds and shoves me.<br>A pall of gloom descends,<br>I haven\u2019t any friends,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Nobody loves me.<br>If some one said, \u201cCheer up,\u201d\u2014well, I\u2019d waylay him<br>And grab a heavy bludgeon\u2014and I\u2019d slay him!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cheerfullest of men<br>Gets like this, now and then,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And bile and choler<br>When life just makes him sore,<br>And he will kick and roar,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And swear and holler;<br>So let me rage and snort with temper fearful,<br>And when the fit is over I\u2019ll be cheerful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Seattle Star, September 20, 1913. By Berton Braley. The world\u2019s a rotten hole,It is, upon my soul,&nbsp; &nbsp; No place to live in;There\u2019s no one on the squareAnd people everywhere&nbsp; &nbsp; By greed are driven.I haven\u2019t any vim or real ambitionAnd all my plans are going to perdition. The weather\u2019s on the bum,The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-7506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-seattle-star","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506","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=7506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}