{"id":279,"date":"2022-01-08T00:45:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=279"},"modified":"2022-01-08T01:15:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T01:15:15","slug":"barry-holden","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/barry-holden\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Holden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The very fall my sister Nancy Knapp<br \/>\nSet fire to the house<br \/>\nThey were trying Dr. Duval<br \/>\nFor the murder of Zora Clemens,<br \/>\nAnd I sat in the court two weeks<br \/>\nListening to every witness.<br \/>\nIt was clear he had got her in a family<br \/>\nAnd to let the child be born<br \/>\nWould not do.<br \/>\nWell, how about me with eight children,<br \/>\nAnd one coming, and the farm<br \/>\nMortgaged to Thomas Rhodes?<br \/>\nAnd when I got home that night,<br \/>\n(After listening to the story of the buggy ride,<br \/>\nAnd the finding of Zora in the ditch,)<br \/>\nThe first thing I saw, right there by the steps,<br \/>\nWhere the boys had hacked for angle worms,<br \/>\nWas the hatchet!<br \/>\nAnd just as I entered there was my wife,<br \/>\nStanding before me, big with child.<br \/>\nShe started the talk of the mortgaged farm,<br \/>\nAnd I killed her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/nancy-knapp\/\">Previous: Nancy Knapp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/states-attorney-fallas\/\">Next: State\u2019s Attorney Fallas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The very fall my sister Nancy Knapp Set fire to the house They were trying Dr. Duval For the murder of Zora Clemens, And I sat in the court two weeks Listening to every witness. It was clear he had got her in a family And to let the child be born Would not do. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":77,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279","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=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279\/revisions\/376"}],"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=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}