{"id":743,"date":"2022-01-09T14:20:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T14:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=743"},"modified":"2022-01-09T16:05:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T16:05:08","slug":"tom-beatty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/tom-beatty\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Beatty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was a lawyer like Harmon Whitney<br \/>\nOr <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/kinsey-keene\/\">Kinsey Keene<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/w-lloyd-garrison-standard\/\">Garrison Standard<\/a>,<br \/>\nFor I tried the rights of property,<br \/>\nAlthough by lamp-light, for thirty years,<br \/>\nIn that poker room in the opera house.<br \/>\nAnd I say to you that Life\u2019s a gambler<br \/>\nHead and shoulders above us all.<br \/>\nNo mayor alive can close the house.<br \/>\nAnd if you lose, you can squeal as you will;<br \/>\nYou\u2019ll not get back your money.<br \/>\nHe makes the percentage hard to conquer;<br \/>\nHe stacks the cards to catch your weakness<br \/>\nAnd not to meet your strength.<br \/>\nAnd he gives you seventy years to play:<br \/>\nFor if you cannot win in seventy<br \/>\nYou cannot win at all.<br \/>\nSo, if you lose, get out of the room\u2014<br \/>\nGet out of the room when your time is up.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s mean to sit and fumble the cards<br \/>\nAnd curse your losses, leaden-eyed,<br \/>\nWhining to try and try.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/walter-simmons\/\">Previous: Walter Simmons<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/roy-butler\/\">Next: Roy Butler<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a lawyer like Harmon Whitney Or Kinsey Keene or Garrison Standard, For I tried the rights of property, Although by lamp-light, for thirty years, In that poker room in the opera house. And I say to you that Life\u2019s a gambler Head and shoulders above us all. No mayor alive can close the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[11,30,137,136,116],"class_list":["post-743","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-lawyer","tag-attorney","tag-kinsey-keene","tag-lawyer","tag-tom-beatty","tag-w-lloyd-garrison-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/743","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=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/743\/revisions\/849"}],"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=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}