{"id":876,"date":"2022-02-06T14:18:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T14:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=876"},"modified":"2022-02-06T15:24:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T15:24:02","slug":"ida-frickey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/ida-frickey\/","title":{"rendered":"Ida Frickey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing in life is alien to you:<br \/>\nI was a penniless girl from Summum<br \/>\nWho stepped from the morning train in Spoon River.<br \/>\nAll the houses stood before me with closed doors<br \/>\nAnd drawn shades\u2014I was barred out;<br \/>\nI had no place or part in any of them.<br \/>\nAnd I walked past the old <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/washington-mcneely\/\">McNeely mansion<\/a>,<br \/>\nA castle of stone \u2019mid walks and gardens<br \/>\nWith workmen about the place on guard<br \/>\nAnd the County and State upholding it<br \/>\nFor its lordly owner, full of pride.<br \/>\nI was so hungry I had a vision:<br \/>\nI saw a giant pair of scissors<br \/>\nDip from the sky, like the beam of a dredge,<br \/>\nAnd cut the house in two like a curtain.<br \/>\nBut at the \u201cCommercial\u201d I saw a man<br \/>\nWho winked at me as I asked for work\u2014<br \/>\nIt was <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/washington-mcneely\/\">Wash McNeely<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/paul-mcneely\/\">son<\/a>.<br \/>\nHe proved the link in the chain of title<br \/>\nTo half my ownership of the mansion,<br \/>\nThrough a breach of promise suit\u2014the scissors.<br \/>\nSo, you see, the house, from the day I was born,<br \/>\nWas only waiting for me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/enoch-dunlap\/\">Previous: Enoch Dunlap<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/seth-compton\/\">Next: Seth Compton<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing in life is alien to you: I was a penniless girl from Summum Who stepped from the morning train in Spoon River. All the houses stood before me with closed doors And drawn shades\u2014I was barred out; I had no place or part in any of them. And I walked past the old McNeely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[192,38,191,37],"class_list":["post-876","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-mansion","tag-paul-mcneely","tag-summum","tag-washington-mcneely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/876","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=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/876\/revisions\/958"}],"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=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}