{"id":878,"date":"2022-02-06T14:18:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T14:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=878"},"modified":"2022-02-06T15:23:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T15:23:55","slug":"felix-schmidt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/felix-schmidt\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix Schmidt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was only a little house of two rooms\u2014<br \/>\nAlmost like a child\u2019s play-house\u2014<br \/>\nWith scarce five acres of ground around it;<br \/>\nAnd I had so many children to feed<br \/>\nAnd school and clothe, and a wife who was sick<br \/>\nFrom bearing children.<br \/>\nOne day <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/harmon-whitney\/\">lawyer Whitney<\/a> came along<br \/>\nAnd proved to me that Christian Dallman,<br \/>\nWho owned three thousand acres of land,<br \/>\nHad bought the eighty that adjoined me<br \/>\nIn eighteen hundred and seventy-one<br \/>\nFor eleven dollars, at a sale for taxes,<br \/>\nWhile my father lay in his mortal illness.<br \/>\nSo the quarrel arose and I went to law.<br \/>\nBut when we came to the proof,<br \/>\nA survey of the land showed clear as day<br \/>\nThat Dallman\u2019s tax deed covered my ground<br \/>\nAnd my little house of two rooms.<br \/>\nIt served me right for stirring him up.<br \/>\nI lost my case and lost my place.<br \/>\nI left the court room and went to work<br \/>\nAs Christian Dallman\u2019s tenant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/seth-compton\/\">Previous: Seth Compton<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/schroeder-the-fisherman\/\">Next: Schroeder the Fisherman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was only a little house of two rooms\u2014 Almost like a child\u2019s play-house\u2014 With scarce five acres of ground around it; And I had so many children to feed And school and clothe, and a wife who was sick From bearing children. One day lawyer Whitney came along And proved to me that Christian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[196,32],"class_list":["post-878","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-christian-dallman","tag-harmon-whitney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/878","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=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/878\/revisions\/961"}],"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=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}