{"id":409,"date":"2022-01-08T13:52:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T13:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=409"},"modified":"2022-01-08T15:27:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T15:27:13","slug":"albert-schirding","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/albert-schirding\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert Schirding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/jonas-keene\/\">Jonas Keene<\/a> thought his lot a hard one<br \/>\nBecause his children were all failures.<br \/>\nBut I know of a fate more trying than that:<br \/>\nIt is to be a failure while your children are successes.<br \/>\nFor I raised a brood of eagles<br \/>\nWho flew away at last, leaving me<br \/>\nA crow on the abandoned bough.<br \/>\nThen, with the ambition to prefix<br \/>\nHonorable to my name,<br \/>\nAnd thus to win my children\u2019s admiration,<br \/>\nI ran for County Superintendent of Schools,<br \/>\nSpending my accumulations to win\u2014and lost.<br \/>\nThat fall my daughter received first prize in<br \/>\nParis For her picture, entitled, \u201cThe Old Mill\u201d\u2014<br \/>\n(It was of the water mill before Henry Wilkin put in steam.)<br \/>\nThe feeling that I was not worthy of her finished me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/judge-selah-lively\/\">Previous: Judge Selah Lively<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/jonas-keene\/\">Next: Jonas Keene<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonas Keene thought his lot a hard one Because his children were all failures. But I know of a fate more trying than that: It is to be a failure while your children are successes. For I raised a brood of eagles Who flew away at last, leaving me A crow on the abandoned bough. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":95,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[25,27],"class_list":["post-409","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-suicide","tag-albert-schirding","tag-jonas-keene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/409","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=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/409\/revisions\/491"}],"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=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}