{"id":54,"date":"2022-01-06T23:55:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T23:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2022-01-07T23:05:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T23:05:02","slug":"emily-sparks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/emily-sparks\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Sparks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"noindent\">Where is my boy, my boy<br \/>\nIn what far part of the world?<br \/>\nThe boy I loved best of all in the school?\u2014<br \/>\nI, the teacher, the old maid, the virgin heart,<br \/>\nWho made them all my children.<br \/>\nDid I know my boy aright,<br \/>\nThinking of him as a spirit aflame,<br \/>\nActive, ever aspiring?<br \/>\nOh, boy, boy, for whom I prayed and prayed<br \/>\nIn many a watchful hour at night,<br \/>\nDo you remember the letter I wrote you<br \/>\nOf the beautiful love of Christ?<br \/>\nAnd whether you ever took it or not,<br \/>\nMy, boy, wherever you are,<br \/>\nWork for your soul\u2019s sake,<br \/>\nThat all the clay of you, all of the dross of you,<br \/>\nMay yield to the fire of you,<br \/>\nTill the fire is nothing but light!\u2026<br \/>\nNothing but light!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/reuben-pantier\/\">Previous: Reuben Pantier<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/trainor-the-druggist\/\">Next: Trainor, the Druggist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where is my boy, my boy In what far part of the world? The boy I loved best of all in the school?\u2014 I, the teacher, the old maid, the virgin heart, Who made them all my children. Did I know my boy aright, Thinking of him as a spirit aflame, Active, ever aspiring? Oh, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54","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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions\/131"}],"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=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}