{"id":603,"date":"2022-01-08T19:22:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T19:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=603"},"modified":"2022-01-08T20:13:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T20:13:26","slug":"roger-heston","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/roger-heston\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Heston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-26-AI-Transparent-1.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-698\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-26-AI-Transparent-1.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh many times did <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/ernest-hyde\/\">Ernest Hyde<\/a> and I<br \/>\nArgue about the freedom of the will.<br \/>\nMy favorite metaphor was Prickett\u2019s cow<br \/>\nRoped out to grass, and free you know as far<br \/>\nAs the length of the rope.<br \/>\nOne day while arguing so, watching the cow<br \/>\nPull at the rope to get beyond the circle<br \/>\nWhich she had eaten bare,<br \/>\nOut came the stake, and tossing up her head,<br \/>\nShe ran for us.<br \/>\n\u201cWhat\u2019s that, free-will or what?\u201d said Ernest, running.<br \/>\nI fell just as she gored me to my death.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/ernest-hyde\/\">Previous: Ernest Hyde<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/amos-sibley\/\">Next: Amos Sibley<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh many times did Ernest Hyde and I Argue about the freedom of the will. My favorite metaphor was Prickett\u2019s cow Roped out to grass, and free you know as far As the length of the rope. One day while arguing so, watching the cow Pull at the rope to get beyond the circle Which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[73,75],"class_list":["post-603","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-animal-attack","tag-ernest-hyde","tag-roger-heston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/603","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=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/603\/revisions\/700"}],"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=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}