{"id":281,"date":"2022-01-08T00:45:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=281"},"modified":"2022-01-08T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T16:21:00","slug":"homer-clapp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/homer-clapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Homer Clapp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-82.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-200\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-82.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Often <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/aner-clute\/\">Aner Clute<\/a> at the gate<br \/>\nRefused me the parting kiss,<br \/>\nSaying we should be engaged before that;<br \/>\nAnd just with a distant clasp of the hand<br \/>\nShe bade me good-night, as I brought her home<br \/>\nFrom the skating rink or the revival.<br \/>\nNo sooner did my departing footsteps die away<br \/>\nThan <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/lucius-atherton\/\">Lucius Atherton<\/a>,<br \/>\n(So I learned when Aner went to Peoria)<br \/>\nStole in at her window, or took her riding<br \/>\nBehind his spanking team of bays<br \/>\nInto the country.<br \/>\nThe shock of it made me settle down<br \/>\nAnd I put all the money I got from my father\u2019s estate<br \/>\nInto the canning factory, to get the job<br \/>\nOf head accountant, and lost it all.<br \/>\nAnd then I knew I was one of Life\u2019s fools,<br \/>\nWhom only death would treat as the equal<br \/>\nOf other men, making me feel like a man.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/lucius-atherton\/\">Previous: Lucius Atherton<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/deacon-taylor\/\">Next: Deacon Taylor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often Aner Clute at the gate Refused me the parting kiss, Saying we should be engaged before that; And just with a distant clasp of the hand She bade me good-night, as I brought her home From the skating rink or the revival. No sooner did my departing footsteps die away Than Lucius Atherton, (So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":56,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/281","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=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/281\/revisions\/506"}],"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=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}