{"id":272,"date":"2022-01-08T00:45:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=272"},"modified":"2022-01-08T01:17:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T01:17:44","slug":"dora-williams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/dora-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Dora Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"chapter\">\n<p class=\"noindent\">When <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/reuben-pantier\/\">Reuben Pantier<\/a> ran away and threw me<br \/>\nI went to Springfield. There I met a lush,<br \/>\nWhose father just deceased left him a fortune.<br \/>\nHe married me when drunk.<br \/>\nMy life was wretched.<br \/>\nA year passed and one day they found him dead.<br \/>\nThat made me rich. I moved on to Chicago.<br \/>\nAfter a time met Tyler Rountree, villain.<br \/>\nI moved on to New York. A gray-haired magnate<br \/>\nWent mad about me\u2014so another fortune.<br \/>\nHe died one night right in my arms, you know.<br \/>\n(I saw his purple face for years thereafter. )<br \/>\nThere was almost a scandal.<br \/>\nI moved on, This time to Paris. I was now a woman,<br \/>\nInsidious, subtle, versed in the world and rich.<br \/>\nMy sweet apartment near the Champs Elysees<br \/>\nBecame a center for all sorts of people,<br \/>\nMusicians, poets, dandies, artists, nobles,<br \/>\nWhere we spoke French and German, Italian, English.<br \/>\nI wed Count Navigato, native of Genoa.<br \/>\nWe went to Rome. He poisoned me, I think.<br \/>\nNow in the Campo Santo overlooking<br \/>\nThe sea where young Columbus dreamed new worlds,<br \/>\nSee what they chiseled: \u201cContessa Navigato<br \/>\nImplora eterna quiete.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/robert-southey-burke\/\">Previous: Robert Southey Burke<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/mrs-williams\/\">Next: Mrs. Williams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Reuben Pantier ran away and threw me I went to Springfield. There I met a lush, Whose father just deceased left him a fortune. He married me when drunk. My life was wretched. A year passed and one day they found him dead. That made me rich. I moved on to Chicago. After a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":70,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/272","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=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/272\/revisions\/381"}],"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=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}