{"id":885,"date":"2022-02-06T14:21:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T14:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=885"},"modified":"2022-02-06T15:23:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T15:23:38","slug":"shack-dye","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/shack-dye\/","title":{"rendered":"Shack Dye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The white men played all sorts of jokes on me.<br \/>\nThey took big fish off my hook<br \/>\nAnd put little ones on, while I was away<br \/>\nGetting a stringer, and made me believe<br \/>\nI hadn\u2019t seen aright the fish I had caught.<br \/>\nWhen Burr Robbins, circus came to town<br \/>\nThey got the ring master to let a tame leopard<br \/>\nInto the ring, and made me believe<br \/>\nI was whipping a wild beast like Samson<br \/>\nWhen I, for an offer of fifty dollars,<br \/>\nDragged him out to his cage.<br \/>\nOne time I entered my blacksmith shop<br \/>\nAnd shook as I saw some horse-shoes crawling<br \/>\nAcross the floor, as if alive\u2014<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/walter-simmons\/\">Walter Simmons<\/a> had put a magnet<br \/>\nUnder the barrel of water.<br \/>\nYet everyone of you, you white men,<br \/>\nWas fooled about fish and about leopards too,<br \/>\nAnd you didn\u2019t know any more than the horse-shoes did<br \/>\nWhat moved you about Spoon River.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/e-c-culbertson\/\">Previous: E. C. Culbertson<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/hildrup-tubbs\/\">Next: Hildrup Tubbs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The white men played all sorts of jokes on me. They took big fish off my hook And put little ones on, while I was away Getting a stringer, and made me believe I hadn\u2019t seen aright the fish I had caught. When Burr Robbins, circus came to town They got the ring master to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-885","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-walter-simmons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/885","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=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/885\/revisions\/969"}],"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=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}