{"id":726,"date":"2022-01-09T14:20:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T14:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=726"},"modified":"2022-01-09T15:48:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T15:48:44","slug":"professor-newcomer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/professor-newcomer\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Newcomer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone laughed at Col. Prichard<br \/>\nFor buying an engine so powerful<br \/>\nThat it wrecked itself, and wrecked the grinder<br \/>\nHe ran it with.<br \/>\nBut here is a joke of cosmic size:<br \/>\nThe urge of nature that made a man<br \/>\nEvolve from his brain a spiritual life\u2014<br \/>\nOh miracle of the world!\u2014<br \/>\nThe very same brain with which the ape and wolf<br \/>\nGet food and shelter and procreate themselves.<br \/>\nNature has made man do this,<br \/>\nIn a world where she gives him nothing to do<br \/>\nAfter all\u2014(though the strength of his soul goes round<br \/>\nIn a futile waste of power.<br \/>\nTo gear itself to the mills of the gods)\u2014<br \/>\nBut get food and shelter and procreate himself!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-58.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-87\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-58.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/w-lloyd-garrison-standard\/\">Previous: W. Lloyd Garrison Standard<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/ralph-rhodes\/\">Next: Ralph Rhodes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone laughed at Col. Prichard For buying an engine so powerful That it wrecked itself, and wrecked the grinder He ran it with. But here is a joke of cosmic size: The urge of nature that made a man Evolve from his brain a spiritual life\u2014 Oh miracle of the world!\u2014 The very same brain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[120,115],"class_list":["post-726","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-professor-teacher","tag-col-prichard","tag-professor-newcomer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/726","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=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/726\/revisions\/831"}],"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=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}