{"id":882,"date":"2022-02-06T14:19:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T14:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=882"},"modified":"2022-02-06T15:23:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T15:23:46","slug":"dillard-sissman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/dillard-sissman\/","title":{"rendered":"Dillard Sissman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The buzzards wheel slowly<br \/>\nIn wide circles, in a sky<br \/>\nFaintly hazed as from dust from the road.<br \/>\nAnd a wind sweeps through the pasture where I lie<br \/>\nBeating the grass into long waves.<br \/>\nMy kite is above the wind,<br \/>\nThough now and then it wobbles,<br \/>\nLike a man shaking his shoulders;<br \/>\nAnd the tail streams out momentarily,<br \/>\nThen sinks to rest.<br \/>\nAnd the buzzards wheel and wheel,<br \/>\nSweeping the zenith with wide circles<br \/>\nAbove my kite. And the hills sleep.<br \/>\nAnd a farm house, white as snow,<br \/>\nPeeps from green trees\u2014far away.<br \/>\nAnd I watch my kite,<br \/>\nFor the thin moon will kindle herself ere long,<br \/>\nThen she will swing like a pendulum dial<br \/>\nTo the tail of my kite.<br \/>\nA spurt of flame like a water-dragon<br \/>\nDazzles my eyes\u2014<br \/>\nI am shaken as a banner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/silas-dement\/\">Previous: Silas Dement<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/jonathan-houghton\/\">Next: Jonathan Houghton<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The buzzards wheel slowly In wide circles, in a sky Faintly hazed as from dust from the road. And a wind sweeps through the pasture where I lie Beating the grass into long waves. My kite is above the wind, Though now and then it wobbles, Like a man shaking his shoulders; And the tail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/882","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=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/882\/revisions\/965"}],"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=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}