{"id":7610,"date":"2021-11-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7610"},"modified":"2021-11-01T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T05:00:00","slug":"the-right-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-right-road\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn88085187\/1913-11-01\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Tacoma Times, November 1, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>. By Berton Braley.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where\u2019s the road to happiness,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Where\u2019s the joyous way?<br>Where\u2019s the path to Arcady<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Ever blithe as May?<br>Here be many roads to take,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Wisdom, there, ahoy!<br>What\u2019s the proper turn to make<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; For the road of joy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTake whatever road is straight,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Carol as you go,<br>Help a comrade bear his pack<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; If it bends him low,<br>Take your chances as they come,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Famine days or fat,<br>If Dame Fortune treat you ill<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Dare to laugh at that!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s the road to Happiness?<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; How then shall we make it?<br>\u201cTisn\u2019t just the way you TAKE,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; But the WAY you take it!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Tacoma Times, November 1, 1913. By Berton Braley. Where\u2019s the road to happiness,&nbsp; &nbsp; Where\u2019s the joyous way?Where\u2019s the path to Arcady&nbsp; &nbsp; Ever blithe as May?Here be many roads to take,&nbsp; &nbsp; Wisdom, there, ahoy!What\u2019s the proper turn to make&nbsp; &nbsp; For the road of joy? \u201cTake whatever road is straight,&nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-7610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-tacoma-times","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610","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=7610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}