{"id":730,"date":"2022-01-09T14:20:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T14:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=730"},"modified":"2022-01-09T15:50:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T15:50:33","slug":"oscar-hummel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/oscar-hummel\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Hummel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I staggered on through darkness,<br \/>\nThere was a hazy sky, a few stars<br \/>\nWhich I followed as best I could.<br \/>\nIt was nine o\u2019clock, I was trying to get home.<br \/>\nBut somehow I was lost,<br \/>\nThough really keeping the road.<br \/>\nThen I reeled through a gate and into a yard,<br \/>\nAnd called at the top of my voice:<br \/>\n\u201cOh, Fiddler! Oh, Mr. Jones!\u201d<br \/>\n(I thought it was his house and he would show me the way home. )<br \/>\nBut who should step out but <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/a-d-blood\/\">A. D. Blood<\/a>,<br \/>\nIn his night shirt, waving a stick of wood,<br \/>\nAnd roaring about the cursed saloons,<br \/>\nAnd the criminals they made?<br \/>\n\u201cYou drunken Oscar Hummel\u201d, he said,<br \/>\nAs I stood there weaving to and fro,<br \/>\nTaking the blows from the stick in his hand<br \/>\nTill I dropped down dead at his feet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/rosie-roberts\/\">Previous: Rosie Roberts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/roscoe-purkapile\/\">Next: Roscoe Purkapile<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I staggered on through darkness, There was a hazy sky, a few stars Which I followed as best I could. It was nine o\u2019clock, I was trying to get home. But somehow I was lost, Though really keeping the road. Then I reeled through a gate and into a yard, And called at the top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[123,110],"class_list":["post-730","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-alcoholism","category-homicide","tag-a-d-blood","tag-oscar-hummel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/730","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=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/730\/revisions\/834"}],"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=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}