{"id":727,"date":"2022-01-09T14:20:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T14:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=727"},"modified":"2022-01-09T15:48:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T15:48:39","slug":"ralph-rhodes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/ralph-rhodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Rhodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-167.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-550\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-167.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All they said was true:<br \/>\nI wrecked my <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/thomas-rhodes\/\">father<\/a>\u2019s bank with my loans<br \/>\nTo dabble in wheat; but this was true\u2014<br \/>\nI was buying wheat for him as well,<br \/>\nWho couldn\u2019t margin the deal in his name<br \/>\nBecause of his church relationship.<br \/>\nAnd while George Reece was serving his term<br \/>\nI chased the will-o-the-wisp of women<br \/>\nAnd the mockery of wine in New York.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s deathly to sicken of wine and women<br \/>\nWhen nothing else is left in life.<br \/>\nBut suppose your head is gray, and bowed<br \/>\nOn a table covered with acrid stubs<br \/>\nOf cigarettes and empty glasses,<br \/>\nAnd a knock is heard, and you know it\u2019s the knock<br \/>\nSo long drowned out by popping corks<br \/>\nAnd the pea-cock screams of demireps\u2014<br \/>\nAnd you look up, and there\u2019s your Theft,<br \/>\nWho waited until your head was gray,<br \/>\nAnd your heart skipped beats to say to you:<br \/>\nThe game is ended. I\u2019ve called for you,<br \/>\nGo out on Broadway and be run over,<br \/>\nThey\u2019ll ship you back to Spoon River.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/professor-newcomer\/\">Previous: Professor Newcomer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/mickey-mgrew\/\">Next: Mickey M\u2019Grew<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All they said was true: I wrecked my father\u2019s bank with my loans To dabble in wheat; but this was true\u2014 I was buying wheat for him as well, Who couldn\u2019t margin the deal in his name Because of his church relationship. And while George Reece was serving his term I chased the will-o-the-wisp of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[121,113,29],"class_list":["post-727","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-george-reece","tag-ralph-rhodes","tag-thomas-rhodes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/727","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=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/727\/revisions\/832"}],"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=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}