{"id":209,"date":"2022-01-08T00:13:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=209"},"modified":"2022-01-08T00:27:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:27:39","slug":"jacob-goodpasture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/jacob-goodpasture\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Goodpasture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Fort Sumter fell and the war came<br \/>\nI cried out in bitterness of soul:<br \/>\n\u201cO glorious republic now no more!\u201d<br \/>\nWhen they buried my soldier son<br \/>\nTo the call of trumpets and the sound of drums<br \/>\nMy heart broke beneath the weight<br \/>\nOf eighty years, and I cried:<br \/>\n\u201cOh, son who died in a cause unjust!<br \/>\nIn the strife of Freedom slain!\u201d<br \/>\nAnd I crept here under the grass.<br \/>\nAnd now from the battlements of time, behold:<br \/>\nThrice thirty million souls being bound together<br \/>\nIn the love of larger truth,<br \/>\nRapt in the expectation of the birth<br \/>\nOf a new Beauty,<br \/>\nSprung from Brotherhood and Wisdom.<br \/>\nI with eyes of spirit see the Transfiguration<br \/>\nBefore you see it.<br \/>\nBut ye infinite brood of golden eagles nesting ever higher,<br \/>\nWheeling ever higher, the sun-light wooing<br \/>\nOf lofty places of Thought,<br \/>\nForgive the blindness of the departed owl.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/picholas-bindle\/\">Previous: Nicholas Bindle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/harold-arnett\/\">Next: Harold Arnett<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Fort Sumter fell and the war came I cried out in bitterness of soul: \u201cO glorious republic now no more!\u201d When they buried my soldier son To the call of trumpets and the sound of drums My heart broke beneath the weight Of eighty years, and I cried: \u201cOh, son who died in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":45,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209","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=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209\/revisions\/256"}],"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=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}