{"id":742,"date":"2022-01-09T14:20:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T14:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=742"},"modified":"2022-01-09T16:03:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T16:03:17","slug":"walter-simmons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/walter-simmons\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Simmons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My parents thought that I would be<br \/>\nAs great as Edison or greater:<br \/>\nFor as a boy I made balloons<br \/>\nAnd wondrous kites and toys with clocks<br \/>\nAnd little engines with tracks to run on<br \/>\nAnd telephones of cans and thread.<br \/>\nI played the cornet and painted pictures,<br \/>\nModeled in clay and took the part<br \/>\nOf the villain in the \u201cOctoroon.\u201d<br \/>\nBut then at twenty-one I married<br \/>\nAnd had to live, and so, to live<br \/>\nI learned the trade of making watches<br \/>\nAnd kept the jewelry store on the square,<br \/>\nThinking, thinking, thinking, thinking,\u2014<br \/>\nNot of business, but of the engine<br \/>\nI studied the calculus to build.<br \/>\nAnd all Spoon River watched and waited<br \/>\nTo see it work, but it never worked.<br \/>\nAnd a few kind souls believed my genius<br \/>\nWas somehow hampered by the store.<br \/>\nIt wasn\u2019t true.<br \/>\nThe truth was this:<br \/>\nI did not have the brains.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/jacob-godbey\/\">Previous: Jacob Godbey<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/tom-beatty\/\">Next: Tom Beatty<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My parents thought that I would be As great as Edison or greater: For as a boy I made balloons And wondrous kites and toys with clocks And little engines with tracks to run on And telephones of cans and thread. I played the cornet and painted pictures, Modeled in clay and took the part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-742","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-walter-simmons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/742","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=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/742\/revisions\/848"}],"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=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}