{"id":8071,"date":"2022-04-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8071"},"modified":"2022-04-08T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T05:00:00","slug":"the-foolish-ant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-foolish-ant\/","title":{"rendered":"The Foolish Ant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1914-04-08\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Rock Island Argus, April 8, 1914<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seek not to learn a lesson<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 From the busy little ant<br>That works away forever<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 And never says, \u201cI can\u2019t.\u201d<br>For oh the ant is foolish\u2014<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 If it had proper wit<br>Instead of laboring away<br>A thousand other ants each day<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 Would have to work for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Rock Island Argus, April 8, 1914. Seek not to learn a lesson\u00a0 \u00a0 From the busy little antThat works away forever\u00a0 \u00a0 And never says, \u201cI can\u2019t.\u201dFor oh the ant is foolish\u2014\u00a0 \u00a0 If it had proper witInstead of laboring awayA thousand other ants each day\u00a0 \u00a0 Would have to work for it.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-8071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8071","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=8071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}