{"id":67,"date":"2011-04-12T17:34:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T17:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/wordpress\/?p=67"},"modified":"2015-05-17T01:42:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T01:42:12","slug":"the-ballad-of-shannon-cates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/the-ballad-of-shannon-cates\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ballad of Shannon Cates"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-67-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/TheBalladOfShannonCatesVx3.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/TheBalladOfShannonCatesVx3.mp3\">https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/TheBalladOfShannonCatesVx3.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Long ago in the great days of logging<br \/>\nShannon Cates had most of the fame;<br \/>\nhe was known up and down that north-west coast<br \/>\nand everyone shrank at his name.<\/p>\n<p>For he thought that men were like engines,<br \/>\nmeant to work to the end of their days;<br \/>\nand of all the things that had worked for him<br \/>\nthe steam donk alone had praise.<\/p>\n<p>He owned an old tugboat named Irma,<br \/>\nwhich he drove till she gave up and sank;<br \/>\nthen he cursed her to Hell, and followed her there<br \/>\nand kicked in her boiler tank.<\/p>\n<p>No man worked long for Shannon;<br \/>\nthey said: \u201cHe treats men like slaves;<br \/>\nyou can sum up the cost of his countless board feet<br \/>\nin the number of loggers\u2019 graves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for women, Shannon was shameless;<br \/>\nhe rushed on his lecherous quest<br \/>\nfrom British Columbia to Coronada<br \/>\nand bastardized the west.<\/p>\n<p>But for logging he had no equal<br \/>\nin Heaven or Hell or here;<br \/>\na\u00a0tree to him was four dollars per foot,<br \/>\nand that made eight hundred clear.<\/p>\n<p>He believed every tree was for cutting,<br \/>\nand swore he\u2019d make barren that coast;<br \/>\nbut he tripped when a tree came down suddenly,<br \/>\nand that put an end to his boast.<\/p>\n<p>This is the song of the great Shannon Cates\u2014<br \/>\nnot likely he\u2019s one of the Blest;<br \/>\ntoo much of a man for any one time,<br \/>\nhe\u2019d think Hell was Eternal Rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/TheBalladOfShannonCatesVx3.mp3 &nbsp; Long ago in the great days of logging Shannon Cates had most of the fame; he was known up and down that north-west coast and everyone shrank at his name. For he thought that men were like engines, meant to work to the end of their days; and of all the things that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lightotherverse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}