{"id":600,"date":"2022-01-08T19:21:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T19:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=600"},"modified":"2022-01-08T20:13:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T20:13:10","slug":"elsa-wertman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/elsa-wertman\/","title":{"rendered":"Elsa Wertman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-141.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-558\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-141.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was a peasant girl from Germany,<br \/>\nBlue-eyed, rosy, happy and strong.<br \/>\nAnd the first place I worked was at Thomas Greene\u2019s.<br \/>\nOn a summer\u2019s day when she was away<br \/>\nHe stole into the kitchen and took me<br \/>\nRight in his arms and kissed me on my throat,<br \/>\nI turning my head. Then neither of us<br \/>\nSeemed to know what happened.<br \/>\nAnd I cried for what would become of me.<br \/>\nAnd cried and cried as my secret began to show.<br \/>\nOne day Mrs. Greene said she understood,<br \/>\nAnd would make no trouble for me,<br \/>\nAnd, being childless, would adopt it.<br \/>\n(He had given her a farm to be still. )<br \/>\nSo she hid in the house and sent out rumors,<br \/>\nAs if it were going to happen to her.<br \/>\nAnd all went well and the child was born\u2014<br \/>\nThey were so kind to me.<br \/>\nLater I married Gus Wertman, and years passed.<br \/>\nBut\u2014at political rallies when sitters-by thought I was crying<br \/>\nAt the eloquence of Hamilton Greene\u2014<br \/>\nThat was not it. No! I wanted to say:<br \/>\nThat\u2019s my son!<br \/>\nThat\u2019s my son.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/robert-davidson\/\">Previous: Robert Davidson<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/hamilton-greene\/\">Next: Hamilton Greene<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a peasant girl from Germany, Blue-eyed, rosy, happy and strong. And the first place I worked was at Thomas Greene\u2019s. On a summer\u2019s day when she was away He stole into the kitchen and took me Right in his arms and kissed me on my throat, I turning my head. Then neither of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[68,66],"class_list":["post-600","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-elsa-wertman","tag-germany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/600","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=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/600\/revisions\/693"}],"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=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}