{"id":8450,"date":"2022-09-11T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8450"},"modified":"2022-09-11T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T05:00:00","slug":"the-trouble-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-trouble-maker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trouble Maker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1914-09-11\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Evening Star, September 11, 1914<\/a>. By Philander Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Nothin\u2019 only carelessness<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Said Hezekiah Bings,<br\/>Is causin\u2019 all the world\u2019s distress<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;An\u2019 disconcertin\u2019 things.<br\/>For years the fields have blossomed gay,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For years the sun has shown.<br\/>This world would go its placid way<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If it were left alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>But as it blossoms and it thrives<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For mortals to enjoy,<br\/>Man with his strange ambition strives<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To make the world his toy.<br\/>Through hurt and horror man will trace<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;His pathway to a throne,<br\/>Yet earth would be a pleasant place<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If it were left alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Star, September 11, 1914. By Philander Johnson. Nothin\u2019 only carelessness&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Said Hezekiah Bings,Is causin\u2019 all the world\u2019s distress&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;An\u2019 disconcertin\u2019 things.For years the fields have blossomed gay,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For years the sun has shown.This world would go its placid way&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If it were left alone. But as it blossoms and it thrives&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For mortals to enjoy,Man with his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[248],"class_list":["post-8450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-philander-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450","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=8450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}