{"id":277,"date":"2022-01-08T00:45:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=277"},"modified":"2022-01-08T01:15:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T01:15:56","slug":"john-horace-burleson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/john-horace-burleson\/","title":{"rendered":"John Horace Burleson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I won the prize essay at school<br \/>\nHere in the village,<br \/>\nAnd published a novel before I was twenty-five.<br \/>\nI went to the city for themes and to enrich my art;<br \/>\nThere married the banker\u2019s daughter,<br \/>\nAnd later became president of the bank\u2014<br \/>\nAlways looking forward to some leisure<br \/>\nTo write an epic novel of the war.<br \/>\nMeanwhile friend of the great, and lover of letters,<br \/>\nAnd host to Matthew Arnold and to Emerson.<br \/>\nAn after dinner speaker, writing essays<br \/>\nFor local clubs. At last brought here\u2014<br \/>\nMy boyhood home, you know\u2014<br \/>\nNot even a little tablet in Chicago<br \/>\nTo keep my name alive.<br \/>\nHow great it is to write the single line:<br \/>\n\u201cRoll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, roll!\u201c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/blind-jack\/\">Previous: Blind Jack<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/nancy-knapp\/\">Next: Nancy Knapp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I won the prize essay at school Here in the village, And published a novel before I was twenty-five. I went to the city for themes and to enrich my art; There married the banker\u2019s daughter, And later became president of the bank\u2014 Always looking forward to some leisure To write an epic novel of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":75,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/277","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=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/277\/revisions\/378"}],"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=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}