{"id":273,"date":"2022-01-08T00:45:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=273"},"modified":"2022-01-08T01:16:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T01:16:36","slug":"mrs-williams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/mrs-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Mrs. Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was the milliner<br \/>\nTalked about, lied about,<br \/>\nMother of Dora,<br \/>\nWhose strange disappearance<br \/>\nWas charged to her rearing.<br \/>\nMy eye quick to beauty<br \/>\nSaw much beside ribbons<br \/>\nAnd buckles and feathers<br \/>\nAnd leghorns and felts,<br \/>\nTo set off sweet faces,<br \/>\nAnd dark hair and gold.<br \/>\nOne thing I will tell you<br \/>\nAnd one I will ask:<br \/>\nThe stealers of husbands<br \/>\nWear powder and trinkets,<br \/>\nAnd fashionable hats.<br \/>\nWives, wear them yourselves.<br \/>\nHats may make divorces\u2014<br \/>\nThey also prevent them.<br \/>\nWell now, let me ask you:<br \/>\nIf all of the children, born here in Spoon River<br \/>\nHad been reared by the<br \/>\nCounty, somewhere on a farm;<br \/>\nAnd the fathers and mothers had been given their freedom<br \/>\nTo live and enjoy, change mates if they wished,<br \/>\nDo you think that Spoon River<br \/>\nHad been any the worse?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/dora-williams\/\">Previous: Dora Williams<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/william-and-emily\/\">Next: William and Emily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was the milliner Talked about, lied about, Mother of Dora, Whose strange disappearance Was charged to her rearing. My eye quick to beauty Saw much beside ribbons And buckles and feathers And leghorns and felts, To set off sweet faces, And dark hair and gold. One thing I will tell you And one I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":71,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273","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=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273\/revisions\/361"}],"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=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}