{"id":282,"date":"2022-01-08T00:45:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=282"},"modified":"2022-01-08T16:20:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T16:20:16","slug":"deacon-taylor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/deacon-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Deacon Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I belonged to the church,<br \/>\nAnd to the party of prohibition;<br \/>\nAnd the villagers thought I died of eating watermelon.<br \/>\nIn truth I had cirrhosis of the liver,<br \/>\nFor every noon for thirty years,<br \/>\nI slipped behind the prescription partition<br \/>\nIn <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/trainor-the-druggist\/\">Trainor\u2019s drug store<\/a><br \/>\nAnd poured a generous drink<br \/>\nFrom the bottle marked \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.collinsdictionary.com\/us\/dictionary\/english\/spiritus-frumenti\">Spiritus frumenti<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-83.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-201\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-83.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/homer-clapp\/\">Previous: Homer Clapp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/sam-hookey\/\">Next: Sam Hookey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I belonged to the church, And to the party of prohibition; And the villagers thought I died of eating watermelon. In truth I had cirrhosis of the liver, For every noon for thirty years, I slipped behind the prescription partition In Trainor\u2019s drug store And poured a generous drink From the bottle marked \u201cSpiritus frumenti.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":57,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-alcoholism","category-reverend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/282","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=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/282\/revisions\/505"}],"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=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}