{"id":868,"date":"2022-02-06T14:15:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T14:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=868"},"modified":"2022-02-06T14:40:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T14:40:28","slug":"peleg-poague","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/peleg-poague\/","title":{"rendered":"Peleg Poague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-194.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-538\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-194.svg\" alt=\"A skull inside a horseshoe\" width=\"250\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Horses and men are just alike.<br \/>\nThere was my stallion, Billy Lee,<br \/>\nBlack as a cat and trim as a deer,<br \/>\nWith an eye of fire, keen to start,<br \/>\nAnd he could hit the fastest speed<br \/>\nOf any racer around Spoon River.<br \/>\nBut just as you\u2019d think he couldn\u2019t lose,<br \/>\nWith his lead of fifty yards or more,<br \/>\nHe\u2019d rear himself and throw the rider,<br \/>\nAnd fall back over, tangled up,<br \/>\nCompletely gone to pieces.<br \/>\nYou see he was a perfect fraud:<br \/>\nHe couldn\u2019t win, he couldn\u2019t work,<br \/>\nHe was too light to haul or plow with,<br \/>\nAnd no one wanted colts from him.<br \/>\nAnd when I tried to drive him\u2014well,<br \/>\nHe ran away and killed me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/hiram-scates\/\">Previous: Hiram Scates<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/jeduthan-hawley\/\">Next: Jeduthan Hawley<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horses and men are just alike. There was my stallion, Billy Lee, Black as a cat and trim as a deer, With an eye of fire, keen to start, And he could hit the fastest speed Of any racer around Spoon River. But just as you\u2019d think he couldn\u2019t lose, With his lead of fifty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[171,172,170,169],"class_list":["post-868","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-animal-attack","tag-accident","tag-animal-killing","tag-horse","tag-horse-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/868","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=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/868\/revisions\/950"}],"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=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}