{"id":408,"date":"2022-01-08T13:55:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T13:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=408"},"modified":"2022-01-08T15:27:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T15:27:24","slug":"judge-selah-lively","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/judge-selah-lively\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Selah Lively"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose you stood just five feet two,<br \/>\nAnd had worked your way as a grocery clerk ,<br \/>\nStudying law by candle light<br \/>\nUntil you became an attorney at law ?<br \/>\nAnd then suppose through your diligence,<br \/>\nAnd regular church attendance,<br \/>\nYou became attorney for Thomas Rhodes,<br \/>\nCollecting notes and mortgages,<br \/>\nAnd representing all the widows<br \/>\nIn the Probate Court ? And through it all<br \/>\nThey jeered at your size, and laughed at your clothes<br \/>\nAnd your polished boots ? And then suppose<br \/>\nYou became the County Judge ?<br \/>\nAnd Jefferson Howard and <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/kinsey-keene\/\">Kinsey Keene<\/a>,<br \/>\n&#8211; And Harmon Whitney, and all the giants<br \/>\nWho had sneered at you, were forced to stand<br \/>\nBefore the bar and say \u201c Your Honor\u201d<br \/>\nWell, don&#8217;t you think it was natural<br \/>\nThat I made it hard for them ?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/jefferson-howard\/\">Previous: Jefferson Howard<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/albert-schirding\/\">Next: Albert Schirding<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose you stood just five feet two, And had worked your way as a grocery clerk , Studying law by candle light Until you became an attorney at law ? And then suppose through your diligence, And regular church attendance, You became attorney for Thomas Rhodes, Collecting notes and mortgages, And representing all the widows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":94,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11,32,31,28,41,30,29],"class_list":["post-408","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-attorney","tag-harmon-whitney","tag-jefferson-howard","tag-judge","tag-judge-selah-lively","tag-kinsey-keene","tag-thomas-rhodes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/408","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=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/408\/revisions\/492"}],"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=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}