{"id":407,"date":"2022-01-08T13:55:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T13:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=407"},"modified":"2022-01-08T15:27:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T15:27:27","slug":"jefferson-howard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/jefferson-howard\/","title":{"rendered":"Jefferson Howard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My valiant fight! For I call it valiant,<br \/>\nWith my father\u2019s beliefs from old Virginia:<br \/>\nHating slavery, but no less war.<br \/>\nI, full of spirit, audacity, courage<br \/>\nThrown into life here in Spoon River,<br \/>\nWith its dominant forces drawn from<br \/>\nNew England, Republicans, Calvinists, merchants, bankers,<br \/>\nHating me, yet fearing my arm.<br \/>\nWith wife and children heavy to carry\u2014<br \/>\nYet fruits of my very zest of life.<br \/>\nStealing odd pleasures that cost me prestige,<br \/>\nAnd reaping evils I had not sown;<br \/>\nFoe of the church with its charnel dankness,<br \/>\nFriend of the human touch of the tavern;<br \/>\nTangled with fates all alien to me,<br \/>\nDeserted by hands I called my own.<br \/>\nThen just as I felt my giant strength<br \/>\nShort of breath, behold my children<br \/>\nHad wound their lives in stranger gardens\u2014<br \/>\nAnd I stood alone, as I started alone<br \/>\nMy valiant life! I died on my feet,<br \/>\nFacing the silence\u2014facing the prospect<br \/>\nThat no one would know of the fight I made.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/rev-abner-peet\/\">Previous: Rev. Abner Peet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/judge-selah-lively\/\">Next: Judge Selah Lively<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My valiant fight! For I call it valiant, With my father\u2019s beliefs from old Virginia: Hating slavery, but no less war. I, full of spirit, audacity, courage Thrown into life here in Spoon River, With its dominant forces drawn from New England, Republicans, Calvinists, merchants, bankers, Hating me, yet fearing my arm. With wife and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":93,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-407","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-jefferson-howard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407","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=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407\/revisions\/493"}],"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=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}