{"id":170,"date":"2022-01-07T23:38:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T23:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=170"},"modified":"2022-01-07T23:44:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T23:44:03","slug":"johnnie-sayre","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/johnnie-sayre\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnnie Sayre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Father, thou canst never know<br \/>\nThe anguish that smote my heart<br \/>\nFor my disobedience, the moment I felt<br \/>\nThe remorseless wheel of the engine<br \/>\nSink into the crying flesh of my leg.<br \/>\nAs they carried me to the home of widow Morris<br \/>\nI could see the school-house in the valley<br \/>\nTo which I played truant to steal rides upon the trains.<br \/>\nI prayed to live until I could ask your forgiveness\u2014<br \/>\nAnd then your tears, your broken words of comfort!<br \/>\nFrom the solace of that hour I have gained infinite happiness.<br \/>\nThou wert wise to chisel for me:<br \/>\n\u201cTaken from the evil to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/julia-miller\/\">Previous: Julia Miller<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/charlie-french\/\">Next: Charlie French<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father, thou canst never know The anguish that smote my heart For my disobedience, the moment I felt The remorseless wheel of the engine Sink into the crying flesh of my leg. As they carried me to the home of widow Morris I could see the school-house in the valley To which I played truant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":37,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170","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=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170\/revisions\/188"}],"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=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}