{"id":144,"date":"2022-01-07T23:16:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T23:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=144"},"modified":"2022-01-07T23:21:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T23:21:11","slug":"butch-weldy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/butch-weldy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cButch\u201d Weldy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"noindent\">After I got religion and steadied down<br \/>\nThey gave me a job in the canning works,<br \/>\nAnd every morning I had to fill<br \/>\nThe tank in the yard with gasoline,<br \/>\nThat fed the blow-fires in the sheds<br \/>\nTo heat the soldering irons.<br \/>\nAnd I mounted a rickety ladder to do it,<br \/>\nCarrying buckets full of the stuff.<br \/>\nOne morning, as I stood there pouring,<br \/>\nThe air grew still and seemed to heave,<br \/>\nAnd I shot up as the tank exploded,<br \/>\nAnd down I came with both legs broken,<br \/>\nAnd my eyes burned crisp as a couple of eggs.<br \/>\nFor someone left a blow\u2014fire going,<br \/>\nAnd something sucked the flame in the tank.<br \/>\nThe Circuit Judge said whoever did it<br \/>\nWas a fellow-servant of mine, and so<br \/>\nOld Rhodes\u2019 son didn\u2019t have to pay me.<br \/>\nAnd I sat on the witness stand as blind<br \/>\nAs lack the Fiddler, saying over and over,<br \/>\n\u201cI didn\u2019t know him at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/mrs-meyers\/\">Previous: Mrs. Meyers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next: Knowlt Hoheimer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I got religion and steadied down They gave me a job in the canning works, And every morning I had to fill The tank in the yard with gasoline, That fed the blow-fires in the sheds To heat the soldering irons. And I mounted a rickety ladder to do it, Carrying buckets full of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":25,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions\/149"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}