{"id":280,"date":"2022-01-08T00:45:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=280"},"modified":"2022-01-08T01:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T01:15:00","slug":"states-attorney-fallas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/states-attorney-fallas\/","title":{"rendered":"State\u2019s Attorney Fallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I, the scourge-wielder, balance-wrecker,<br \/>\nSmiter with whips and swords;<br \/>\nI, hater of the breakers of the law;<br \/>\nI, legalist, inexorable and bitter,<br \/>\nDriving the jury to hang the madman, Barry Holden,<br \/>\nWas made as one dead by light too bright for eyes,<br \/>\nAnd woke to face a Truth with bloody brow:<br \/>\nSteel forceps fumbled by a doctor\u2019s hand<br \/>\nAgainst my boy\u2019s head as he entered life<br \/>\nMade him an idiot. I turned to books of science<br \/>\nTo care for him.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s how the world of those whose minds are sick<br \/>\nBecame my work in life, and all my world.<br \/>\nPoor ruined boy! You were, at last, the potter<br \/>\nAnd I and all my deeds of charity<br \/>\nThe vessels of your hand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/barry-holden\/\">Previous: Barry Holden<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next: Wendell P. Bloyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I, the scourge-wielder, balance-wrecker, Smiter with whips and swords; I, hater of the breakers of the law; I, legalist, inexorable and bitter, Driving the jury to hang the madman, Barry Holden, Was made as one dead by light too bright for eyes, And woke to face a Truth with bloody brow: Steel forceps fumbled by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":78,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280","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=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280\/revisions\/375"}],"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=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}