{"id":172,"date":"2022-01-07T23:38:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T23:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=172"},"modified":"2022-01-08T00:04:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:04:59","slug":"zenas-witt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/zenas-witt\/","title":{"rendered":"Zenas Witt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"chapter\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-66.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-203\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-66.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"noindent\">I was sixteen, and I had the most terrible dreams,<br \/>\nAnd specks before my eyes, and nervous weakness.<br \/>\nAnd I couldn\u2019t remember the books I read,<br \/>\nLike Frank Drummer who memorized page after page.<br \/>\nAnd my back was weak, and I worried and worried,<br \/>\nAnd I was embarrassed and stammered my lessons,<br \/>\nAnd when I stood up to recite I\u2019d forget<br \/>\nEverything that I had studied.<br \/>\nWell, I saw Dr. Weese\u2019s advertisement,<br \/>\nAnd there I read everything in print,<br \/>\nJust as if he had known me;<br \/>\nAnd about the dreams which I couldn\u2019t help.<br \/>\nSo I knew I was marked for an early grave.<br \/>\nAnd I worried until I had a cough<br \/>\nAnd then the dreams stopped.<br \/>\nAnd then I slept the sleep without dreams<br \/>\nHere on the hill by the river.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-64.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-202\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-64.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/charlie-french\/\">Previous: Charlie French<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/theodore-the-poet\/\">Next: Theodore the Poet<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sixteen, and I had the most terrible dreams, And specks before my eyes, and nervous weakness. And I couldn\u2019t remember the books I read, Like Frank Drummer who memorized page after page. And my back was weak, and I worried and worried, And I was embarrassed and stammered my lessons, And when I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":39,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172","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=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions\/204"}],"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=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}