{"id":271,"date":"2022-01-08T00:45:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=271"},"modified":"2022-01-08T01:17:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T01:17:17","slug":"robert-southey-burke","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/robert-southey-burke\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Southey Burke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"chapter\">\n<p class=\"noindent\">I spent my money trying to elect you Mayor<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/a-d-blood\/\">A. D. Blood<\/a>.<br \/>\nI lavished my admiration upon you,<br \/>\nYou were to my mind the almost perfect man.<br \/>\nYou devoured my personality,<br \/>\nAnd the idealism of my youth,<br \/>\nAnd the strength of a high-souled fealty.<br \/>\nAnd all my hopes for the world,<br \/>\nAnd all my beliefs in Truth,<br \/>\nWere smelted up in the blinding heat<br \/>\nOf my devotion to you,<br \/>\nAnd molded into your image.<br \/>\nAnd then when I found what you were:<br \/>\nThat your soul was small<br \/>\nAnd your words were false<br \/>\nAs your blue-white porcelain teeth,<br \/>\nAnd your cuffs of celluloid,<br \/>\nI hated the love I had for you,<br \/>\nI hated myself, I hated you<br \/>\nFor my wasted soul, and wasted youth.<br \/>\nAnd I say to all, beware of ideals,<br \/>\nBeware of giving your love away<br \/>\nTo any man alive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/a-d-blood\/\">Previous: A. D. Blood<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/dora-williams\/\">Next: Dora Williams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent my money trying to elect you Mayor A. D. Blood. I lavished my admiration upon you, You were to my mind the almost perfect man. You devoured my personality, And the idealism of my youth, And the strength of a high-souled fealty. And all my hopes for the world, And all my beliefs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":69,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271","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=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271\/revisions\/380"}],"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=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}