{"id":84,"date":"2021-01-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2021-01-01T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T06:00:00","slug":"new-years-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/new-years-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn87093407\/1913-01-01\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\"><em>The Seattle Star, January 1, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Berton Braley.<\/em>\n \n\n We won\u2019t be too ambitious in a resoluting way,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; We\u2019ll plan on very little of the new deal stuff.\n For neither Rome nor Athens was completed in a day\n &nbsp; &nbsp; And reforming\u2019s not accomplished by a great big bluff.\n We\u2019re going to take it gently and by stages and degrees;\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Our goodness will not raise us to a higher sphere.\n But we\u2019ll try to show improvement in our actions, if you please,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; And be a LITTLE better than we were last year!\n \n\n We shan\u2019t upset the country by our thoughtfulness and care,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; We\u2019ll go on being selfish to a large extent.\n But may be there\u2019ll be troubles we can kind of help to share,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; And maybe we\u2019ll be gentler in our temperament;\n We shall not have a halo for the charity we do\n &nbsp; &nbsp; (A mortal with a halo would be mighty queer)\n But we\u2019ll moderate our tempers\u2014(can we count a bit on you?)\n &nbsp; &nbsp; And we\u2019ll be a LITTLE kinder than we were last year!\n \n\n We won\u2019t be too ambitious in the matter of reform,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; But we\u2019ll be a little better if we find we can.\n And where the market\u2019s crowded and the game is getting warm\n &nbsp; &nbsp; We\u2019ll be a little nicer to our fellow man.\n We shan\u2019t be shining angels and we wouldn\u2019t if we could,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; We only hope for progress and we start right here.\n We want to be\u2014not perfect, or even \u201cgoody good!\u201d\u2014\n &nbsp; &nbsp; But Better Human Beings than we were last year!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> We won\u2019t be too ambitious in a resoluting way,<br \/>\n     We\u2019ll plan on very little of the new deal stuff.<br \/>\n For neither Rome nor Athens was completed in a day<br \/>\n     And reforming\u2019s not accomplished by a great big bluff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-seattle-star","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","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=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}