{"id":397,"date":"2022-01-08T13:36:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T13:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=397"},"modified":"2022-01-08T13:46:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T13:46:02","slug":"russian-sonia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/russian-sonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Sonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I, born in Weimar<br \/>\nOf a mother who was French<br \/>\nAnd German father, a most learned professor,<br \/>\nOrphaned at fourteen years,<br \/>\nBecame a dancer, known as Russian Sonia,<br \/>\nAll up and down the boulevards of Paris,<br \/>\nMistress betimes of sundry dukes and counts,<br \/>\nAnd later of poor artists and of poets.<br \/>\nAt forty years,\u00a0<i>pass\u00e9e<\/i>, I sought New York<br \/>\nAnd met old Patrick Hummer on the boat,<br \/>\nRed-faced and hale, though turned his sixtieth year,<br \/>\nReturning after having sold a ship-load<br \/>\nOf cattle in the German city, Hamburg.<br \/>\nHe brought me to Spoon River and we lived here<br \/>\nFor twenty years\u2014they thought that we were married<br \/>\nThis oak tree near me is the favorite haunt<br \/>\nOf blue jays chattering, chattering all the day.<br \/>\nAnd why not? for my very dust is laughing<br \/>\nFor thinking of the humorous thing called life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/john-m-church\/\">Previous: John M. Church<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/isa-nutter\/\">Next: Isa Nutter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I, born in Weimar Of a mother who was French And German father, a most learned professor, Orphaned at fourteen years, Became a dancer, known as Russian Sonia, All up and down the boulevards of Paris, Mistress betimes of sundry dukes and counts, And later of poor artists and of poets. At forty years,\u00a0pass\u00e9e, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":83,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-397","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-dancer","tag-patrick-hummer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/397","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=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/397\/revisions\/435"}],"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=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}