{"id":8118,"date":"2022-04-22T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8118"},"modified":"2022-04-22T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T05:00:00","slug":"the-modern-polonius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-modern-polonius\/","title":{"rendered":"The Modern Polonius"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the <\/em>Newark Evening Star, April 22, 1914<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It never pays to whine, my son;
    The world has little time to hear
Complaints from those who have not won
    The prizes that are scarce and dear.
The man who haunts a gloomy nook
    Is never cheered and seldom praised;
Assume an air and try to look
    As if your pay had just been raised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It never pays, my son, to let
    Your neighbor see your empty purse,
Nor will it help your case to fret
    When things have gone from bad to worse;
When luck deserts you, as it will,
    Conceal the fact from foe and friend
And try to look as if you still
    Had money that you wished to spend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It never pays, my son, to show
    That fear is lurking in your breast;
When trouble weighs your spirit low
    \u2019Tis time to smile your merriest.
I cannot tell you how to strut
    With pride when trouble crushes you,
Or how to laugh while grieving, but
    I know it is the thing to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Newark Evening Star, April 22, 1914. It never pays to whine, my son;    The world has little time to hearComplaints from those who have not won    The prizes that are scarce and dear.The man who haunts a gloomy nook    Is never cheered and seldom praised;Assume an air and try to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newark-evening-star","category-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118","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=8118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}