{"id":745,"date":"2022-01-09T14:20:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T14:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=745"},"modified":"2022-01-09T16:09:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T16:09:29","slug":"searcy-foote","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/searcy-foote\/","title":{"rendered":"Searcy Foote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to go away to college<br \/>\nBut rich Aunt Persis wouldn\u2019t help me.<br \/>\nSo I made gardens and raked the lawns<br \/>\nAnd bought John Alden\u2019s books with my earnings<br \/>\nAnd toiled for the very means of life.<br \/>\nI wanted to marry Delia Prickett,<br \/>\nBut how could I do it with what I earned?<br \/>\nAnd there was Aunt Persis more than seventy<br \/>\nWho sat in a wheel-chair half alive<br \/>\nWith her throat so paralyzed, when she swallowed<br \/>\nThe soup ran out of her mouth like a duck\u2014<br \/>\nA gourmand yet, investing her income<br \/>\nIn mortgages, fretting all the time<br \/>\nAbout her notes and rents and papers.<br \/>\nThat day I was sawing wood for her,<br \/>\nAnd reading <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon\">Proudhon<\/a> in between.<br \/>\nI went in the house for a drink of water,<br \/>\nAnd there she sat asleep in her chair,<br \/>\nAnd Proudhon lying on the table,<br \/>\nAnd a bottle of chloroform on the book,<br \/>\nShe used sometimes for an aching tooth!<br \/>\nI poured the chloroform on a handkerchief<br \/>\nAnd held it to her nose till she died.\u2014<br \/>\nOh Delia, Delia, you and Proudhon<br \/>\nSteadied my hand, and the coroner<br \/>\nSaid she died of heart failure.<br \/>\nI married Delia and got the money\u2014<br \/>\nA joke on you, Spoon River?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-187.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-544\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-187.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"92\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/roy-butler\/\">Previous: Roy Butler<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/edmund-pollard\/\">Next: Edmund Pollard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to go away to college But rich Aunt Persis wouldn\u2019t help me. So I made gardens and raked the lawns And bought John Alden\u2019s books with my earnings And toiled for the very means of life. I wanted to marry Delia Prickett, But how could I do it with what I earned? And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[146,147,16,145],"class_list":["post-745","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-murderer","tag-aunt-persis","tag-delia-prickett","tag-murder","tag-searcy-foote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/745","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=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/745\/revisions\/851"}],"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=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}