{"id":49,"date":"2022-01-06T23:54:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T23:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2022-01-07T23:00:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T23:00:36","slug":"benjamin-pantier","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/benjamin-pantier\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Pantier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOGETHER in this grave lie Benjamin Pantier, attorney at law ,<br \/>\nAnd Nig, his dog, constant companion, solace and friend.<br \/>\nDown the gray road, friends, children, men and women,<br \/>\nPassing one by one out of life, left me till I was alone<br \/>\nWith Nig for partner, bed &#8211; fellow , comrade in drink.<br \/>\nIn the morning of life I knew aspiration and saw glory .<br \/>\nThen she, who survives me, snared my soul<br \/>\nWith a snare which bled me to death,<br \/>\nTill I, once strong of will, lay broken, indifferent,<br \/>\nLiving with Nig in a room back of a dingy office.<br \/>\nUnder my jaw-bone is snuggled the bony nose of Nig &#8211;<br \/>\nOur story is lost in silence. Go by, mad world !<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-38-AI.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/kinsey-keene\/\">Previous: Kinsey Keene<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/mrs-benjamin-pantier\/\">Next: Mrs. Benjamin Pantier<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOGETHER in this grave lie Benjamin Pantier, attorney at law , And Nig, his dog, constant companion, solace and friend. Down the gray road, friends, children, men and women, Passing one by one out of life, left me till I was alone With Nig for partner, bed &#8211; fellow , comrade in drink. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-pantier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","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=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/125"}],"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=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}