{"id":84422,"date":"2020-12-22T01:57:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T06:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=84422"},"modified":"2020-10-16T22:20:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T03:20:58","slug":"young-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/young-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Fayetteville, Ark.] <em>The Arkansian<\/em>, December 22, 1860<\/p>\n<p>Young Man, you look healthy, hearty, why don&#8217;t you go to work? You are able to drink whisky and smoke cigars, why don&#8217;t you earn the money to pay for them, instead of being a constant drain on your daddy&#8217;s pocket? How long do you expect your daddy to live? His money has paid for your education and your law books, or medical books, now out for yourself and don&#8217;t lounge on daddy. Resolve to be somebody. If you can&#8217;t find work to do with your head, go to work with your hands. &#8220;Work!&#8221; is the watch work of the age\u2014the safeguard of industry. It won&#8217;t hurt you, People will only think more of you, and the young ladies will like you better\u2014at least, the sensible portion of them\u2014for they know if you ever marry, you&#8217;ll be able at least to give your wife a good living. Then cut loose from the nursery strings and hang no longer to daddy, waiting for something to happen, but go to work, and make something happen. Don&#8217;t wait forever for the iron to get hot before you strike, but go to work and make it hot by striking! Strike long, loud, late and early; and whether you become rich or not, (riches are not for all) you will enjoy a quiet conscience and a good living, and have the right to hold up your head among men and women, not as a drone, but as a pillar of society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Fayetteville, Ark.] The Arkansian, December 22, 1860 Young Man, you look healthy, hearty, why don&#8217;t you go to work? You are able to drink whisky and smoke cigars, why don&#8217;t you earn the money to pay for them, instead of being a constant drain on your daddy&#8217;s pocket? How long do you expect your daddy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":84376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Image11.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}