{"id":604,"date":"2022-01-08T19:22:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T19:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=604"},"modified":"2022-01-08T19:57:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T19:57:02","slug":"amos-sibley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/amos-sibley\/","title":{"rendered":"Amos Sibley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-24-AI.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-24-AI.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not character, not fortitude, not patience<br \/>\nWere mine, the which the village thought I had<br \/>\nIn bearing with <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/mrs-sibley\/\">my wife<\/a>, while preaching on,<br \/>\nDoing the work God chose for me.<br \/>\nI loathed her as a termagant, as a wanton.<br \/>\nI knew of her adulteries, every one.<br \/>\nBut even so, if I divorced the woman<br \/>\nI must forsake the ministry.<br \/>\nTherefore to do God\u2019s work and have it crop,<br \/>\nI bore with her<br \/>\nSo lied I to myself<br \/>\nSo lied I to Spoon River!<br \/>\nYet I tried lecturing, ran for the legislature,<br \/>\nCanvassed for books, with just the thought in mind:<br \/>\nIf I make money thus,<br \/>\nI will divorce her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/roger-heston\/\">Previous: Roger Heston<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/mrs-sibley\/\">Next: Mrs. Sibley<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not character, not fortitude, not patience Were mine, the which the village thought I had In bearing with my wife, while preaching on, Doing the work God chose for me. I loathed her as a termagant, as a wanton. I knew of her adulteries, every one. But even so, if I divorced the woman I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[76,35,77],"class_list":["post-604","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-amos-sibley","tag-marriage","tag-mrs-sibley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/604","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=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/604\/revisions\/701"}],"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=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}