{"id":210,"date":"2022-01-08T00:13:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=210"},"modified":"2022-01-08T00:28:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:28:11","slug":"harold-arnett","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/harold-arnett\/","title":{"rendered":"Harold Arnett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"chapter\">\n<p class=\"noindent\">I leaned against the mantel, sick, sick,<br \/>\nThinking of my failure, looking into the abysm,<br \/>\nWeak from the noon-day heat.<br \/>\nA church bell sounded mournfully far away,<br \/>\nI heard the cry of a baby,<br \/>\nAnd the coughing of John Yarnell,<br \/>\nBed-ridden, feverish, feverish, dying,<br \/>\nThen the violent voice of my wife:<br \/>\n\u201cWatch out, the potatoes are burning!\u201d<br \/>\nI smelled them . . . then there was irresistible disgust.<br \/>\nI pulled the trigger . . . blackness . . . light . . .<br \/>\nUnspeakable regret . . . fumbling for the world again.<br \/>\nToo late! Thus I came here,<br \/>\nWith lungs for breathing . . . one cannot breathe here with lungs,<br \/>\nThough one must breathe<br \/>\nOf what use is it To rid one\u2019s self of the world,<br \/>\nWhen no soul may ever escape the eternal destiny of life?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/jacob-goodpasture\/\">Previous: Jacob Goodpasture<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/margaret-fuller-slack\/\">Next: Margaret Fuller Slack<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I leaned against the mantel, sick, sick, Thinking of my failure, looking into the abysm, Weak from the noon-day heat. A church bell sounded mournfully far away, I heard the cry of a baby, And the coughing of John Yarnell, Bed-ridden, feverish, feverish, dying, Then the violent voice of my wife: \u201cWatch out, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":46,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210","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=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210\/revisions\/257"}],"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=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}