{"id":724,"date":"2022-01-09T14:20:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T14:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=724"},"modified":"2022-01-09T15:48:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T15:48:56","slug":"clarence-fawcett","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/clarence-fawcett\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarence Fawcett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sudden death of <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/eugene-carman\/\">Eugene Carman<\/a><br \/>\nPut me in line to be promoted to fifty dollars a month,<br \/>\nAnd I told my wife and children that night.<br \/>\nBut it didn\u2019t come, and so I thought<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/thomas-rhodes\/\">Old Rhodes<\/a> suspected me of stealing<br \/>\nThe blankets I took and sold on the side<br \/>\nFor money to pay a doctor\u2019s bill for my little girl.<br \/>\nThen like a bolt old Rhodes accused me,<br \/>\nAnd promised me mercy for my family\u2019s sake<br \/>\nIf I confessed, and so I confessed,<br \/>\nAnd begged him to keep it out of the papers,<br \/>\nAnd I asked the editors, too.<br \/>\nThat night at home the constable took me<br \/>\nAnd every paper, except the Clarion,<br \/>\nWrote me up as a thief<br \/>\nBecause old Rhodes was an advertiser<br \/>\nAnd wanted to make an example of me.<br \/>\nOh! well, you know how the children cried,<br \/>\nAnd how my wife pitied and hated me,<br \/>\nAnd how I came to lie here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-147.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-555\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-147.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/eugene-carman\/\">Previous: Eugene Carman<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/w-lloyd-garrison-standard\/\">Next: W. Lloyd Garrison Standard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sudden death of Eugene Carman Put me in line to be promoted to fifty dollars a month, And I told my wife and children that night. But it didn\u2019t come, and so I thought Old Rhodes suspected me of stealing The blankets I took and sold on the side For money to pay a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[117,118,29],"class_list":["post-724","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-clarence-fawcett","tag-eugene-carman","tag-thomas-rhodes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/724","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=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/724\/revisions\/829"}],"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=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}