{"id":391,"date":"2022-01-08T13:31:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T13:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=391"},"modified":"2022-01-08T13:45:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T13:45:42","slug":"wendell-p-bloyd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/wendell-p-bloyd\/","title":{"rendered":"Wendell P. Bloyd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They first charged me with disorderly conduct,<br \/>\nThere being no statute on blasphemy.<br \/>\nLater they locked me up as insane<br \/>\nWhere I was beaten to death by a Catholic guard.<br \/>\nMy offense was this:<br \/>\nI said God lied to Adam, and destined him<br \/>\nTo lead the life of a fool,<br \/>\nIgnorant that there is evil in the world as well as good.<br \/>\nAnd when Adam outwitted God by eating the apple<br \/>\nAnd saw through the lie,<br \/>\nGod drove him out of Eden to keep him from taking<br \/>\nThe fruit of immortal life.<br \/>\nFor Christ\u2019s sake, you sensible people,<br \/>\nHere\u2019s what God Himself says about it in the book of Genesis:<br \/>\n\u201cAnd the Lord God said, behold the man<br \/>\nIs become as one of us\u201d (a little envy, you see),<br \/>\n\u201cTo know good and evil\u201d (The all-is-good lie exposed):<br \/>\n\u201cAnd now lest he put forth his hand and take<br \/>\nAlso of the tree of life and eat, and live forever:<br \/>\nTherefore the Lord God sent Him forth from the garden of Eden.\u201d (The reason I believe God crucified His Own Son<br \/>\nTo get out of the wretched tangle is, because it sounds just like Him. )<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/states-attorney-fallas\/\">Previous: State&#8217;s Attorney Fallas<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/francis-turner\/\">Next: Francis Turner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They first charged me with disorderly conduct, There being no statute on blasphemy. Later they locked me up as insane Where I was beaten to death by a Catholic guard. My offense was this: I said God lied to Adam, and destined him To lead the life of a fool, Ignorant that there is evil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":79,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[18,17,16],"class_list":["post-391","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-homicide","tag-blasphemy","tag-homicide","tag-murder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/391","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=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/391\/revisions\/423"}],"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=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}