{"id":744,"date":"2022-01-09T14:20:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T14:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=744"},"modified":"2022-01-09T16:06:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T16:06:38","slug":"roy-butler","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/roy-butler\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the learned Supreme Court of Illinois<br \/>\nGot at the secret of every case<br \/>\nAs well as it does a case of rape<br \/>\nIt would be the greatest court in the world.<br \/>\nA jury, of neighbors mostly, with <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/butch-weldy\/\">\u201cButch\u201d Weldy<\/a><br \/>\nAs foreman, found me guilty in ten minutes<br \/>\nAnd two ballots on a case like this:<br \/>\nRichard Bandle and I had trouble over a fence<br \/>\nAnd my wife and Mrs. Bandle quarreled<br \/>\nAs to whether Ipava was a finer town than Table Grove.<br \/>\nI awoke one morning with the love of God<br \/>\nBrimming over my heart, so I went to see Richard<br \/>\nTo settle the fence in the spirit of Jesus Christ.<br \/>\nI knocked on the door, and his wife opened;<br \/>\nShe smiled and asked me in.<br \/>\nI entered\u2014 She slammed the door and began to scream,<br \/>\n\u201cTake your hands off, you low down varlet!\u201d<br \/>\nJust then her husband entered.<br \/>\nI waved my hands, choked up with words.<br \/>\nHe went for his gun, and I ran out.<br \/>\nBut neither the Supreme Court nor my wife<br \/>\nBelieved a word she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/tom-beatty\/\">Previous: Tom Beatty<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/searcy-foote\/\">Next: Searcy Foote<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the learned Supreme Court of Illinois Got at the secret of every case As well as it does a case of rape It would be the greatest court in the world. A jury, of neighbors mostly, with \u201cButch\u201d Weldy As foreman, found me guilty in ten minutes And two ballots on a case like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[138,142,140,141,139],"class_list":["post-744","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-butch-weldy","tag-mrs-bandle","tag-rape","tag-richard-bandle","tag-roy-butler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/744","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=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/744\/revisions\/850"}],"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=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}