{"id":728,"date":"2022-01-09T14:20:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T14:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=728"},"modified":"2022-01-09T15:48:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T15:48:24","slug":"mickey-mgrew","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/mickey-mgrew\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickey M\u2019Grew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was just like everything else in life:<br \/>\nSomething outside myself drew me down,<br \/>\nMy own strength never failed me.<br \/>\nWhy, there was the time I earned the money<br \/>\nWith which to go away to school,<br \/>\nAnd my father suddenly needed help<br \/>\nAnd I had to give him all of it.<br \/>\nJust so it went till I ended up<br \/>\nA man-of-all-work in Spoon River.<br \/>\nThus when I got the water-tower cleaned,<br \/>\nAnd they hauled me up the seventy feet,<br \/>\nI unhooked the rope from my waist,<br \/>\nAnd laughingly flung my giant arms<br \/>\nOver the smooth steel lips of the top of the tower\u2014<br \/>\nBut they slipped from the treacherous slime,<br \/>\nAnd down, down, down, I plunged<br \/>\nThrough bellowing darkness!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/ralph-rhodes\/\">Previous: Ralph Rhodes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/rosie-roberts\/\">Next: Rosie Roberts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was just like everything else in life: Something outside myself drew me down, My own strength never failed me. Why, there was the time I earned the money With which to go away to school, And my father suddenly needed help And I had to give him all of it. Just so it went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-728","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-accident","tag-mickey-mgrew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/728","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=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/728\/revisions\/833"}],"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=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}