{"id":276,"date":"2022-01-08T01:11:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T01:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=276"},"modified":"2022-01-08T01:16:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T01:16:16","slug":"blind-jack","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/blind-jack\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind Jack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had fiddled all day at the county fair.<br \/>\nBut driving home \u201cButch\u201d Weldy and Jack McGuire,<br \/>\nWho were roaring full, made me fiddle and fiddle<br \/>\nTo the song of Susie Skinner, while whipping the horses<br \/>\nTill they ran away. Blind as I was, I tried to get out<br \/>\nAs the carriage fell in the ditch,<br \/>\nAnd was caught in the wheels and killed.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s a blind man here with a brow<br \/>\nAs big and white as a cloud.<br \/>\nAnd all we fiddlers, from highest to lowest,<br \/>\nWriters of music and tellers of stories<br \/>\nSit at his feet,<br \/>\nAnd hear him sing of the fall of Troy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/the-circuit-judge\/\">Previous: The Circuit Judge<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/john-horace-burleson\/\">Next: John Horace Burleson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had fiddled all day at the county fair. But driving home \u201cButch\u201d Weldy and Jack McGuire, Who were roaring full, made me fiddle and fiddle To the song of Susie Skinner, while whipping the horses Till they ran away. Blind as I was, I tried to get out As the carriage fell in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":74,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/276","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=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/276\/revisions\/379"}],"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=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}