{"id":211,"date":"2022-01-08T00:14:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=211"},"modified":"2022-01-08T00:28:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:28:53","slug":"margaret-fuller-slack","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/margaret-fuller-slack\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Fuller Slack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would have been as great as George Eliot<br \/>\nBut for an untoward fate.<br \/>\nFor look at the photograph of me made by Penniwit,<br \/>\nChin resting on hand, and deep\u2014set eyes\u2014<br \/>\nGray, too, and far-searching.<br \/>\nBut there was the old, old problem:<br \/>\nShould it be celibacy, matrimony or unchastity?<br \/>\nThen John Slack, the rich druggist, wooed me,<br \/>\nLuring me with the promise of leisure for my novel,<br \/>\nAnd I married him, giving birth to eight children,<br \/>\nAnd had no time to write.<br \/>\nIt was all over with me, anyway,<br \/>\nWhen I ran the needle in my hand<br \/>\nWhile washing the baby\u2019s things,<br \/>\nAnd died from lock\u2014jaw, an ironical death.<br \/>\nHear me, ambitious souls,<br \/>\nSex is the curse of life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/harold-arnett\/\">Previous: Harold Arnett<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/george-trimble\/\">Next: George Trimble<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would have been as great as George Eliot But for an untoward fate. For look at the photograph of me made by Penniwit, Chin resting on hand, and deep\u2014set eyes\u2014 Gray, too, and far-searching. But there was the old, old problem: Should it be celibacy, matrimony or unchastity? Then John Slack, the rich druggist, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":47,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211","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=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211\/revisions\/259"}],"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=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}