{"id":267,"date":"2022-01-08T00:37:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=267"},"modified":"2022-01-08T01:23:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T01:23:48","slug":"lucius-atherton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/lucius-atherton\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucius Atherton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-81.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-199 size-thumbnail\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-81.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When my moustache curled,<br \/>\nAnd my hair was black,<br \/>\nAnd I wore tight trousers<br \/>\nAnd a diamond stud,<br \/>\nI was an excellent knave of hearts and took many a trick.<br \/>\nBut when the gray hairs began to appear\u2014<br \/>\nLo! a new generation of girls<br \/>\nLaughed at me, not fearing me,<br \/>\nAnd I had no more exciting adventures<br \/>\nWherein I was all but shot for a heartless devil,<br \/>\nBut only drabby affairs, warmed-over affairs<br \/>\nOf other days and other men.<br \/>\nAnd time went on until I lived at<br \/>\nMayer\u2019s restaurant,<br \/>\nPartaking of short-orders, a gray, untidy,<br \/>\nToothless, discarded, rural Don Juan. . . .<br \/>\nThere is a mighty shade here who sings<br \/>\nOf one named Beatrice;<br \/>\nAnd I see now that the force that made him great<br \/>\nDrove me to the dregs of life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/aner-clute\/\">Previous: Aner Clute<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/homer-clapp\/\">Next: Homer Clapp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my moustache curled, And my hair was black, And I wore tight trousers And a diamond stud, I was an excellent knave of hearts and took many a trick. But when the gray hairs began to appear\u2014 Lo! a new generation of girls Laughed at me, not fearing me, And I had no more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":55,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267","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=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267\/revisions\/316"}],"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=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}