{"id":205,"date":"2022-01-08T00:06:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=205"},"modified":"2022-01-08T00:24:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:24:18","slug":"the-town-marshal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/the-town-marshal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Town Marshal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Prohibitionists made me Town Marshal<br \/>\nWhen the saloons were voted out,<br \/>\nBecause when I was a drinking man,<br \/>\nBefore I joined the church, I killed a Swede<br \/>\nAt the saw-mill near Maple Grove.<br \/>\nAnd they wanted a terrible man,<br \/>\nGrim, righteous, strong, courageous,<br \/>\nAnd a hater of saloons and drinkers,<br \/>\nTo keep law and order in the village.<br \/>\nAnd they presented me with a loaded cane<br \/>\nWith which I struck <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/jack-mcguire\/\">Jack McGuire<\/a><br \/>\nBefore he drew the gun with which he killed me.<br \/>\nThe Prohibitionists spent their money in vain<br \/>\nTo hang him, for in a dream<br \/>\nI appeared to one of the twelve jurymen<br \/>\nAnd told him the whole secret story.<br \/>\nFourteen years were enough for killing me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/theodore-the-poet\/\">Previous: Theodore the Poet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/jack-mcguire\/\">Next: Jack McGuire<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prohibitionists made me Town Marshal When the saloons were voted out, Because when I was a drinking man, Before I joined the church, I killed a Swede At the saw-mill near Maple Grove. And they wanted a terrible man, Grim, righteous, strong, courageous, And a hater of saloons and drinkers, To keep law and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":41,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205","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=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205\/revisions\/251"}],"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=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}