{"id":395,"date":"2022-01-08T13:36:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T13:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=395"},"modified":"2022-01-08T19:00:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T19:00:36","slug":"john-m-church","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/john-m-church\/","title":{"rendered":"John M. Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was attorney for the \u201cQ\u201d<br \/>\nAnd the Indemnity Company which insured<br \/>\nThe owners of the mine.<br \/>\nI pulled the wires with judge and jury,<br \/>\nAnd the upper courts, to beat the claims<br \/>\nOf the crippled, the widow and orphan,<br \/>\nAnd made a fortune thereat.<br \/>\nThe bar association sang my praises<br \/>\nIn a high-flown resolution.<br \/>\nAnd the floral tributes were many\u2014<br \/>\nBut the rats devoured my heart<br \/>\nAnd a snake made a nest in my skull<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-140.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-559\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-140.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/franklin-jones\/\">Previous: Franklin Jones<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/russian-sonia\/\">Next: Russian Sonia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was attorney for the \u201cQ\u201d And the Indemnity Company which insured The owners of the mine. I pulled the wires with judge and jury, And the upper courts, to beat the claims Of the crippled, the widow and orphan, And made a fortune thereat. The bar association sang my praises In a high-flown resolution. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":82,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-395","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-attorney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395","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=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395\/revisions\/586"}],"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=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}