{"id":275,"date":"2022-01-08T00:45:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=275"},"modified":"2022-01-08T18:58:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T18:58:16","slug":"the-circuit-judge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/the-circuit-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Circuit Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-100.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-571 size-medium\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-100.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Take note, passers-by, of the sharp erosions<br \/>\nEaten in my head-stone by the wind and rain\u2014<br \/>\nAlmost as if an intangible Nemesis or hatred<br \/>\nWere marking scores against me,<br \/>\nBut to destroy, and not preserve, my memory.<br \/>\nI in life was the Circuit judge, a maker of notches,<br \/>\nDeciding cases on the points the lawyers scored,<br \/>\nNot on the right of the matter.<br \/>\nO wind and rain, leave my head-stone alone<br \/>\nFor worse than the anger of the wronged,<br \/>\nThe curses of the poor,<br \/>\nWas to lie speechless, yet with vision clear,<br \/>\nSeeing that even Hod Putt, the murderer,<br \/>\nHanged by my sentence,<br \/>\nWas innocent in soul compared with me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/william-and-emily\/\">Previous: William and Emily<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/blind-jack\/\">Next: Blind Jack<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take note, passers-by, of the sharp erosions Eaten in my head-stone by the wind and rain\u2014 Almost as if an intangible Nemesis or hatred Were marking scores against me, But to destroy, and not preserve, my memory. I in life was the Circuit judge, a maker of notches, Deciding cases on the points the lawyers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":73,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275","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=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275\/revisions\/582"}],"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=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}