{"id":291,"date":"2022-01-08T00:45:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=291"},"modified":"2022-01-08T01:25:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T01:25:07","slug":"griffy-the-cooper","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/griffy-the-cooper\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffy the Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cooper should know about tubs.<br \/>\nBut I learned about life as well,<br \/>\nAnd you who loiter around these graves<br \/>\nThink you know life.<br \/>\nYou think your eye sweeps about a wide horizon, perhaps,<br \/>\nIn truth you are only looking around the interior of your tub.<br \/>\nYou cannot lift yourself to its rim<br \/>\nAnd see the outer world of things,<br \/>\nAnd at the same time see yourself.<br \/>\nYou are submerged in the tub of yourself\u2014<br \/>\nTaboos and rules and appearances,<br \/>\nAre the staves of your tub.<br \/>\nBreak them and dispel the witchcraft<br \/>\nOf thinking your tub is life<br \/>\nAnd that you know life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/hon-henry-bennett\/\">Previous: Hon. Henry Bennett<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/a-d-blood\/\">Next: A. D. Blood<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cooper should know about tubs. But I learned about life as well, And you who loiter around these graves Think you know life. You think your eye sweeps about a wide horizon, perhaps, In truth you are only looking around the interior of your tub. You cannot lift yourself to its rim And see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":66,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/291","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=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/291\/revisions\/390"}],"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=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}