{"id":7537,"date":"2021-10-03T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7537"},"modified":"2021-10-03T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T05:00:00","slug":"ups-and-downs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/ups-and-downs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ups and Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the <\/em>Omaha Daily Bee, October 3, 1913<\/em><\/a>. By Bayoll ne Trele.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This life is full of ups and downs,
    Just like a teeter-totter;
Seems like one minute we\u2019re the fly,
    The next we are the swatter;
One minute we\u2019re the under dog,
    The next the dog that\u2019s got \u2018im;
One day we ride on top our woes,
    The next we\u2019re at the bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One day we scale the mountain top,
    The next we\u2019re in the valley;
Today our house fronts on the street,
    Tomorrow on the alley;
Sometimes we are \u201csome punkins\u201d
    To whom the public caters;
And then, first thing we know, we find
    We\u2019re mighty \u201csmall pertaters!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This life\u2019s as full of ups and downs
    As a roller-coaster ride is;
Or a Ferris wheel; now we\u2019re high in air,
    Now down where the under side is;
And sometimes in a swing we swing so high
    That up in the clouds we\u2019re hidden;
And again we descend to the sordid earth
    And into the dust have slidden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If life could be expressed in sound
    As a musical composition,
We\u2019d find that without its ups and downs
    That \u2019twas scarcely worth the rendition;
And so let us blend our ups and downs
    Into melodies sweet and true,
For if uncontrolled those ups and downs
    Might make rag-time out of you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Omaha Daily Bee, October 3, 1913. By Bayoll ne Trele. This life is full of ups and downs,    Just like a teeter-totter;Seems like one minute we\u2019re the fly,    The next we are the swatter;One minute we\u2019re the under dog,    The next the dog that\u2019s got \u2018im;One day we ride on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-7537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee","tag-bayoll-ne-trele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537","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=7537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}