{"id":405,"date":"2022-01-08T13:56:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T13:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=405"},"modified":"2022-01-08T15:28:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T15:28:36","slug":"thomas-ross-jr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/thomas-ross-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Ross, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This I saw with my own eyes: A cliff\u2014swallow<br \/>\nMade her nest in a hole of the high clay-bank<br \/>\nThere near Miller\u2019s Ford.<br \/>\nBut no sooner were the young hatched<br \/>\nThan a snake crawled up to the nest<br \/>\nTo devour the brood.<br \/>\nThen the mother swallow with swift flutterings<br \/>\nAnd shrill cries<br \/>\nFought at the snake,<br \/>\nBlinding him with the beat of her wings,<br \/>\nUntil he, wriggling and rearing his head,<br \/>\nFell backward down the bank<br \/>\nInto Spoon River and was drowned.<br \/>\nScarcely an hour passed<br \/>\nUntil a shrike<br \/>\nImpaled the mother swallow on a thorn.<br \/>\nAs for myself I overcame my lower nature<br \/>\nOnly to be destroyed by my brother\u2019s ambition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/rev-lemuel-wiley\/\">Previous: Rev. Lemuel Wiley<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/rev-abner-peet\/\">Next: Rev. Abner Peet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This I saw with my own eyes: A cliff\u2014swallow Made her nest in a hole of the high clay-bank There near Miller\u2019s Ford. But no sooner were the young hatched Than a snake crawled up to the nest To devour the brood. Then the mother swallow with swift flutterings And shrill cries Fought at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":91,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-405","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-thomas-ross-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/405","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=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/405\/revisions\/495"}],"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=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}