{"id":9428,"date":"2023-07-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9428"},"modified":"2023-07-01T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T05:00:00","slug":"the-dont-worriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-dont-worriers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Don\u2019t-Worriers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1915-07-01\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Evening Star, July 1, 1915<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>We started a \u201cDon\u2019t Worry\u201d Club at Pohick on the Crick.<br\/>We thought we\u2019d stop the troubles that were gatherin\u2019 too thick.<br\/>We\u2019d heard about the way that exercisin\u2019 of the mind<br\/>Would help us to be gay an\u2019 leave our earthly cares behind.<br\/>Sim Slicer said that he was through with worryin\u2019 each day<br\/>\u2018Bout goin\u2019 home an\u2019 hearin\u2019 what his wife would have to say.<br\/>An\u2019 all the fellers, they agreed the proper thing to do<br\/>Was jes\u2019 to think of pleasant things an\u2019 hope that they\u2019d come true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>We sat an\u2019 talked about the world so full of nature\u2019s charm,<br\/>An\u2019 no one made allusions to the mortgage on the farm.<br\/>We all took life so easy that Bill Briggs, who keeps the store,<br\/>Resolved to shut it up an\u2019 never fret hisself no more.<br\/>Sim Slicer\u2019s wife she led a crowd who said a thing or two<br\/>\u2018Bout various things, includin\u2019 mortgages a-fallin\u2019 due.<br\/>It was a blissful dream from which we wakened all too quick.<br\/>Now everybody\u2019s worryin\u2019 down to Pohick on the Crick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Star, July 1, 1915. We started a \u201cDon\u2019t Worry\u201d Club at Pohick on the Crick.We thought we\u2019d stop the troubles that were gatherin\u2019 too thick.We\u2019d heard about the way that exercisin\u2019 of the mindWould help us to be gay an\u2019 leave our earthly cares behind.Sim Slicer said that he was through with [&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":[],"class_list":["post-9428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428","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=9428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}