{"id":285,"date":"2022-01-08T00:45:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=285"},"modified":"2022-01-08T01:21:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T01:21:14","slug":"fiddler-jones","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/fiddler-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiddler Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"chapter\">\n<p class=\"noindent\">The earth keeps some vibration going<br \/>\nThere in your heart, and that is you.<br \/>\nAnd if the people find you can fiddle,<br \/>\nWhy, fiddle you must, for all your life.<br \/>\nWhat do you see, a harvest of clover?<br \/>\nOr a meadow to walk through to the river?<br \/>\nThe wind\u2019s in the corn; you rub your hands<br \/>\nFor beeves hereafter ready for market;<br \/>\nOr else you hear the rustle of skirts<br \/>\nLike the girls when dancing at Little Grove.<br \/>\nTo <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/cooney-potter\/\">Cooney Potter<\/a> a pillar of dust<br \/>\nOr whirling leaves meant ruinous drouth;<br \/>\nThey looked to me like Red-Head Sammy<br \/>\nStepping it off, to \u201cToor-a-Loor.\u201d<br \/>\nHow could I till my forty acres<br \/>\nNot to speak of getting more,<br \/>\nWith a medley of horns, bassoons and piccolos<br \/>\nStirred in my brain by crows and robins<br \/>\nAnd the creak of a wind-mill\u2014only these?<br \/>\nAnd I never started to plow in my life<br \/>\nThat some one did not stop in the road<br \/>\nAnd take me away to a dance or picnic.<br \/>\nI ended up with forty acres;<br \/>\nI ended up with a broken fiddle\u2014<br \/>\nAnd a broken laugh, and a thousand memories,<br \/>\nAnd not a single regret.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/cooney-potter\/\">Previous: Cooney Potter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/nellie-clark\/\">Next: Nellie Clark<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, Why, fiddle you must, for all your life. What do you see, a harvest of clover? Or a meadow to walk through to the river? The wind\u2019s in the corn; you rub your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":60,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/285","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=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/285\/revisions\/386"}],"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=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}