{"id":9443,"date":"2023-07-16T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9443"},"modified":"2023-07-16T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T05:00:00","slug":"altogether-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/altogether-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Altogether Different"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn99021999\/1915-07-16\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Omaha Daily Bee, July 16, 1915<\/a>. By Philander Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>They bid us laugh at trouble and to chase dull care away,<br\/>For trouble will grow greater if you nurse it day by day.<br\/>But I couldn\u2019t laugh at trouble and I couldn\u2019t banish care<br\/>When fate turned out a grievance as my own especial share.<br\/>I\u2019ve smiled at the material for customary glee:<br\/>The cook who burned the biscuit seemed a mirthful sprite to me.<br\/>The small boy with a stomach ache\u2014how he has made me grin;<br\/>How I\u2019ve chuckled at the teacher who sat down upon a pin.<br\/>But when the biscuit that was burned at breakfast met my gaze,<br\/>My feelings sought expression in a dozen different ways.<br\/>The small boy with the pain, when once I met him face to face,<br\/>Evoked my sympathy and left of laughter not a trace.<br\/>Of joy the situation showed a most convincing lack<br\/>When I sustained a puncture by a pin or by a tack.<br\/>That smiles will banish sorrow all philosophy has shown;<br\/>But it\u2019s hard to laugh at trouble if the trouble is your own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Omaha Daily Bee, July 16, 1915. By Philander Johnson. They bid us laugh at trouble and to chase dull care away,For trouble will grow greater if you nurse it day by day.But I couldn\u2019t laugh at trouble and I couldn\u2019t banish careWhen fate turned out a grievance as my own especial share.I\u2019ve smiled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[248],"class_list":["post-9443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee","tag-philander-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9443","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=9443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}