{"id":596,"date":"2022-01-08T19:14:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T19:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=596"},"modified":"2022-01-08T19:49:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T19:49:32","slug":"ida-chicken","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/ida-chicken\/","title":{"rendered":"Ida Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"chapter\">\n<p class=\"noindent\">After I had attended lectures<br \/>\nAt our Chautauqua, and studied French<br \/>\nFor twenty years, committing the grammar<br \/>\nAlmost by heart,<br \/>\nI thought I\u2019d take a trip to Paris<br \/>\nTo give my culture a final polish.<br \/>\nSo I went to Peoria for a passport\u2014<br \/>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/thomas-rhodes\/\">Thomas Rhodes<\/a> was on the train that morning.)<br \/>\nAnd there the clerk of the district Court<br \/>\nMade me swear to support and defend<br \/>\nThe constitution\u2014yes, even me\u2014<br \/>\nWho couldn\u2019t defend or support it at all!<br \/>\nAnd what do you think? That very morning<br \/>\nThe Federal Judge, in the very next room<br \/>\nTo the room where I took the oath,<br \/>\nDecided the constitution<br \/>\nExempted Rhodes from paying taxes<br \/>\nFor the water works of Spoon River!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/thomas-rhodes\/\">Previous: Thomas Rhodes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/penniwit-the-artist\/\">Next: Penniwit, the Artist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I had attended lectures At our Chautauqua, and studied French For twenty years, committing the grammar Almost by heart, I thought I\u2019d take a trip to Paris To give my culture a final polish. So I went to Peoria for a passport\u2014 (Thomas Rhodes was on the train that morning.) And there the clerk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[70,44,29],"class_list":["post-596","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-ida-chicken","tag-peoria","tag-thomas-rhodes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/596","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=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/596\/revisions\/655"}],"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=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}