{"id":9277,"date":"2023-04-26T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9277"},"modified":"2023-04-26T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T05:00:00","slug":"the-outs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-outs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Outs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1915-04-26\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Evening Star, April 26, 1915<\/a>. By Philander Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>It is difficult to be a politician,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And labor for your country night and day.<br\/>There are times a man would rather go a-fishin\u2019<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And let the precious moments drift away.<br\/>But a statesman has to stay in active service,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And seek to elevate the human race;<br\/>With reminders of this fact to make him nervous\u2014<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;There are hundreds who are waiting for his place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>No matter if he\u2019s eloquent or witty;<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No matter if his industry\u2019s immense;<br\/>No matter if he can reform a city<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Or check the course of folly and pretense;<br\/>No matter if he\u2019s wise and brave and moral,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The world\u2019s ingratitude invites a sob;<br\/>He is sure to find temptations to a quarrel<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With the hundreds who are waiting for his job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Star, April 26, 1915. By Philander Johnson. It is difficult to be a politician,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And labor for your country night and day.There are times a man would rather go a-fishin\u2019&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And let the precious moments drift away.But a statesman has to stay in active service,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And seek to elevate the human race;With reminders of this [&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-9277","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\/9277","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=9277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}