{"id":25,"date":"2022-01-06T23:43:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T23:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2022-01-09T16:15:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T16:15:48","slug":"robert-fulton-tanner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/robert-fulton-tanner\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Fulton Tanner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"chapter\">\n<p class=\"noindent\">If a man could bite the giant hand<br \/>\nThat catches and destroys him,<br \/>\nAs I was bitten by a rat<br \/>\nWhile demonstrating my patent trap,<br \/>\nIn my hardware store that day.<br \/>\nBut a man can never avenge himself<br \/>\nOn the monstrous ogre Life.<br \/>\nYou enter the room\u2014that\u2019s being born;<br \/>\nAnd then you must live\u2014work out your soul,<br \/>\nAha! the bait that you crave is in view:<br \/>\nA woman with money you want to marry,<br \/>\nPrestige, place, or power in the world.<br \/>\nBut there\u2019s work to do and things to conquer\u2014<br \/>\nOh, yes! the wires that screen the bait.<br \/>\nAt last you get in\u2014but you hear a step:<br \/>\nThe ogre, Life, comes into the room,<br \/>\n(He was waiting and heard the clang of the spring)<br \/>\nTo watch you nibble the wondrous cheese,<br \/>\nAnd stare with his burning eyes at you,<br \/>\nAnd scowl and laugh, and mock and curse you,<br \/>\nRunning up and down in the trap,<br \/>\nUntil your misery bores him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"chapter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/fletcher-mcgee\/\">Previous: Fletcher McGee<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"chapter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/cassius-hueffer\/\">Next: Cassius Hueffer<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chapter\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a man could bite the giant hand That catches and destroys him, As I was bitten by a rat While demonstrating my patent trap, In my hardware store that day. But a man can never avenge himself On the monstrous ogre Life. You enter the room\u2014that\u2019s being born; And then you must live\u2014work out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-robert-fulton-tanner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","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=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/859"}],"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=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}