{"id":9669,"date":"2020-12-12T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2020-12-12T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T06:00:00","slug":"the-regular-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-regular-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Regular Fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn82016014\/1912-12-12\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Topeka State Journal, December 12, 1912<\/a>. By Roy K. Moulton<\/em>\n \n\n The Regular Feller is one who kin smile\n \u00a0 \u00a0 When everything goes dead wrong;\n Kin smile with a smile that\u2019s free from all guile\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And tinker up some sort of song.\n \n The Regular Feller kin whistle a tune\n \u00a0 \u00a0 When things seem to be breaking bad,\n He tries to be happy with what he has got,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Forgetting what he might have had.\n \n The Regular Feller don\u2019t talk all the while,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Like rattlebrained fellers all do,\n But when he says something, just make up your mind\n \u00a0 \u00a0 It\u2019s something worth listenin\u2019 to.\n \n The Regular Feller don\u2019t tell what he\u2019s done,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Or big things he\u2019s going to do soon.\n He just goes and does \u2018em and keeps his mouth shut\n \u00a0 \u00a0 His secrets he tells to the moon.\n \n The Regular Feller has no time to stoop\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And dig into other folks\u2019 ground.\n For small village scandal he cares not a whoop,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He passes no gossip around.\n \n The Regular Feller speaks well of his kind,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Or else he says nothing at all.\n There\u2019s no room for rubbish or junk in his mind,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 No room for the thoughts that are small.\n \n The Regular Feller does not slap your back,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And brag that he\u2019s always your friend.\n But when you\u2019re in trouble and others all quit,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He\u2019ll stand by you, right to the end.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Regular Feller is one who kin smile<br \/>\n     When everything goes dead wrong;<br \/>\n Kin smile with a smile that\u2019s free from all guile<br \/>\n     And tinker up some sort of song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[267],"class_list":["post-9669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-topeka-state-journal","tag-roy-k-moulton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9669","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=9669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}