{"id":217,"date":"2022-01-08T00:16:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=217"},"modified":"2022-01-08T16:22:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T16:22:21","slug":"willard-fluke","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/willard-fluke\/","title":{"rendered":"Willard Fluke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-79.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-197\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-79.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My wife lost her health,<br \/>\nAnd dwindled until she weighed scarce ninety pounds.<br \/>\nThen that woman, whom the men<br \/>\nStyled Cleopatra, came along.<br \/>\nAnd we\u2014we married ones<br \/>\nAll broke our vows, myself among the rest.<br \/>\nYears passed and one by one<br \/>\nDeath claimed them all in some hideous form<br \/>\nAnd I was borne along by dreams<br \/>\nOf God\u2019s particular grace for me,<br \/>\nAnd I began to write, write, write, reams on reams<br \/>\nOf the second coming of Christ.<br \/>\nThen Christ came to me and said,<br \/>\n\u201cGo into the church and stand before the congregation<br \/>\nAnd confess your sin.\u201d<br \/>\nBut just as I stood up and began to speak<br \/>\nI saw my little girl, who was sitting in the front seat\u2014<br \/>\nMy little girl who was born blind!<br \/>\nAfter that, all is blackness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/justice-arnett\/\">Previous: Justice Arnett<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/aner-clute\/\">Next: Aner Clute<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife lost her health, And dwindled until she weighed scarce ninety pounds. Then that woman, whom the men Styled Cleopatra, came along. And we\u2014we married ones All broke our vows, myself among the rest. Years passed and one by one Death claimed them all in some hideous form And I was borne along by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":53,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/217","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=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/217\/revisions\/507"}],"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=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}