{"id":206,"date":"2022-01-08T00:09:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=206"},"modified":"2022-01-08T00:25:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:25:51","slug":"jack-mcguire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/jack-mcguire\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack McGuire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They would have lynched me<br \/>\nHad I not been secretly hurried away<br \/>\nTo the jail at Peoria.<br \/>\nAnd yet I was going peacefully home,<br \/>\nCarrying my jug, a little drunk,<br \/>\nWhen Logan, the <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/the-town-marshal\/\">marshal<\/a>, halted me<br \/>\nCalled me a drunken hound and shook me<br \/>\nAnd, when I cursed him for it, struck me<br \/>\nWith that Prohibition loaded cane\u2014<br \/>\nAll this before I shot him.<br \/>\nThey would have hanged me except for this:<br \/>\nMy lawyer, <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/kinsey-keene\/\">Kinsey Keene<\/a>, was helping to land<br \/>\nOld Thomas Rhodes for wrecking the bank,<br \/>\nAnd the judge was a friend of<br \/>\nRhodes And wanted him to escape,<br \/>\nAnd Kinsey offered to quit on Rhodes<br \/>\nFor fourteen years for me.<br \/>\nAnd the bargain was made.<br \/>\nI served my time<br \/>\nAnd learned to read and write.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/the-town-marshal\/\">Previous: The Town Marshal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/dorcas-gustine\/\">Next: Dorcas Gustine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They would have lynched me Had I not been secretly hurried away To the jail at Peoria. And yet I was going peacefully home, Carrying my jug, a little drunk, When Logan, the marshal, halted me Called me a drunken hound and shook me And, when I cursed him for it, struck me With that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":42,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206","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=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206\/revisions\/253"}],"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=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}