{"id":290,"date":"2022-01-08T00:45:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=290"},"modified":"2022-01-08T00:59:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:59:04","slug":"hon-henry-bennett","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/hon-henry-bennett\/","title":{"rendered":"Hon. Henry Bennett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It never came into my mind<br \/>\nUntil I was ready to die<br \/>\nThat Jenny had loved me to death, with malice of heart.<br \/>\nFor I was seventy, she was thirty\u2014five,<br \/>\nAnd I wore myself to a shadow trying to husband<br \/>\nJenny, rosy Jenny full of the ardor of life.<br \/>\nFor all my wisdom and grace of mind<br \/>\nGave her no delight at all, in very truth,<br \/>\nBut ever and anon she spoke of the giant strength<br \/>\nOf Willard Shafer, and of his wonderful feat<br \/>\nOf lifting a traction engine out of the ditch<br \/>\nOne time at Georgie Kirby\u2019s.<br \/>\nSo Jenny inherited my fortune and married Willard\u2014<br \/>\nThat mount of brawn! That clownish soul!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/george-gray\/\">Previous: George Gray<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/griffy-the-cooper\/\">Next: Griffy the Cooper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It never came into my mind Until I was ready to die That Jenny had loved me to death, with malice of heart. For I was seventy, she was thirty\u2014five, And I wore myself to a shadow trying to husband Jenny, rosy Jenny full of the ardor of life. For all my wisdom and grace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":65,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290","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=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290\/revisions\/352"}],"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=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}