{"id":740,"date":"2022-01-09T14:20:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T14:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=740"},"modified":"2022-01-09T16:01:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T16:01:22","slug":"batterton-dobyns","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/batterton-dobyns\/","title":{"rendered":"Batterton Dobyns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did my widow flit about<br \/>\nFrom Mackinac to Los Angeles,<br \/>\nResting and bathing and sitting an hour<br \/>\nOr more at the table over soup and meats<br \/>\nAnd delicate sweets and coffee?<br \/>\nI was cut down in my prime<br \/>\nFrom overwork and anxiety.<br \/>\nBut I thought all along, whatever happens<br \/>\nI\u2019ve kept my insurance up,<br \/>\nAnd there\u2019s something in the bank,<br \/>\nAnd a section of land in Manitoba.<br \/>\nBut just as I slipped I had a vision<br \/>\nIn a last delirium:<br \/>\nI saw myself lying nailed in a box<br \/>\nWith a white lawn tie and a boutonni\u00e8re,<br \/>\nAnd my wife was sitting by a window<br \/>\nSome place afar overlooking the sea;<br \/>\nShe seemed so rested, ruddy and fat,<br \/>\nAlthough her hair was white.<br \/>\nAnd she smiled and said to a colored waiter:<br \/>\n\u201cAnother slice of roast beef, George.<br \/>\nHere\u2019s a nickel for your trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/hortense-robbins\/\">Previous: Hortense Robbins<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/jacob-godbey\/\">Next: Jacob Godbey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did my widow flit about From Mackinac to Los Angeles, Resting and bathing and sitting an hour Or more at the table over soup and meats And delicate sweets and coffee? I was cut down in my prime From overwork and anxiety. But I thought all along, whatever happens I\u2019ve kept my insurance up, And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-740","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-batterton-dobyns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/740","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=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/740\/revisions\/846"}],"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=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}