{"id":879,"date":"2022-02-06T14:19:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T14:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=879"},"modified":"2022-02-06T15:23:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T15:23:52","slug":"schroeder-the-fisherman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/schroeder-the-fisherman\/","title":{"rendered":"Schroeder the Fisherman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sat on the bank above Bernadotte<br \/>\nAnd dropped crumbs in the water,<br \/>\nJust to see the minnows bump each other,<br \/>\nUntil the strongest got the prize.<br \/>\nOr I went to my little pasture,<br \/>\nWhere the peaceful swine were asleep in the wallow,<br \/>\nOr nosing each other lovingly,<br \/>\nAnd emptied a basket of yellow corn,<br \/>\nAnd watched them push and squeal and bite,<br \/>\nAnd trample each other to get the corn.<br \/>\nAnd I saw how Christian Dallman&#8217;s farm,<br \/>\nOf more than three thousand acres,<br \/>\nSwallowed the patch of Felix Schmidt,<br \/>\nAs a bass will swallow a minnow<br \/>\nAnd I say if there&#8217;s anything in man<br \/>\nSpirit, or conscience, or breath of God<br \/>\nThat makes him different from fishes or hogs,<br \/>\nI&#8217;d like to see it work!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/felix-schmidt\/\">Previous: Felix Schmidt<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/richard-bone\/\">Next: Richard Bone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sat on the bank above Bernadotte And dropped crumbs in the water, Just to see the minnows bump each other, Until the strongest got the prize. Or I went to my little pasture, Where the peaceful swine were asleep in the wallow, Or nosing each other lovingly, And emptied a basket of yellow corn, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-879","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-fisherman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/879","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=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/879\/revisions\/962"}],"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=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}