{"id":7635,"date":"2021-11-13T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7635"},"modified":"2021-11-13T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T06:00:00","slug":"when-things-go-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/when-things-go-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"When Things Go Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the <\/em>Rock Island Argus, November 13, 1913<\/em><\/a>. By Henry Howland.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the car in which you\u2019re riding
    Seems to barely creep along
You are not slow in deciding
    That there must be something wrong;
When you miss the elevator
    And must wait till it comes back
You are likely to blame Fate, or
    Think the whole world\u2019s out of whack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the office boy is stupid
    Or the sweet stenographer
Seems to have her mind on Cupid
    How you hate both him and her;
When she hums her sweet love ditty
    You get overcharged with gall,
And you feel no touch of pity
    When he whistles in the hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you think all men are trying
    To deprive you of your own;
When you wake up sadly sighing
    And, at night, quit with a groan;
When you think that every other
    Finds the wrong course to pursue
It is safe to bet, oh brother,
    That the thing that\u2019s wrong is you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Rock Island Argus, November 13, 1913. By Henry Howland. When the car in which you\u2019re riding    Seems to barely creep alongYou are not slow in deciding    That there must be something wrong;When you miss the elevator    And must wait till it comes backYou are likely to blame Fate, or    […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-7635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-henry-howland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7635","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=7635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}