{"id":169,"date":"2022-01-07T23:37:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T23:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=169"},"modified":"2022-01-07T23:43:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T23:43:10","slug":"julia-miller","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/julia-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We quarreled that morning,<br \/>\nFor he was sixty\u2014five, and I was thirty,<br \/>\nAnd I was nervous and heavy with the child<br \/>\nWhose birth I dreaded.<br \/>\nI thought over the last letter written me<br \/>\nBy that estranged young soul<br \/>\nWhose betrayal of me I had concealed<br \/>\nBy marrying the old man.<br \/>\nThen I took morphine and sat down to read.<br \/>\nAcross the blackness that came over my eyes<br \/>\nI see the flickering light of these words even now:<br \/>\n\u201cAnd Jesus said unto him, Verily<br \/>\nI say unto thee, To-day thou shalt<br \/>\nBe with me in paradise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/flossie-cabanis\/\">Previous: Flossie Cabanis<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/johnnie-sayre\/\">Next: Johnnie Sayre<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We quarreled that morning, For he was sixty\u2014five, and I was thirty, And I was nervous and heavy with the child Whose birth I dreaded. I thought over the last letter written me By that estranged young soul Whose betrayal of me I had concealed By marrying the old man. Then I took morphine and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":36,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/169","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=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/169\/revisions\/187"}],"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=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}