{"id":610,"date":"2022-01-08T19:39:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T19:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=610"},"modified":"2022-01-08T20:14:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T20:14:38","slug":"anthony-findlay","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/anthony-findlay\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Findlay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both for the country and for the man,<br \/>\nAnd for a country as well as a man,<br \/>\n&#8216;Tis better to be feared than loved.<br \/>\nAnd if this country would rather part<br \/>\nWith the friendship of every nation<br \/>\nThan surrender its wealth,<br \/>\nI say of a man &#8217;tis worse to lose<br \/>\nMoney than friends.<br \/>\nAnd I rend the curtain that hides the soul<br \/>\nOf an ancient aspiration:<br \/>\nWhen the people clamor for freedom<br \/>\nThey really seek for power o&#8217;er the strong.<br \/>\nI, Anthony Findlay, rising to greatness<br \/>\nFrom a humble water carrier,<br \/>\nUntil I could say to thousands \u201cCome,\u201d<br \/>\nAnd say to thousands \u201cGo,&#8221;<br \/>\nAffirm that a nation can never be good,<br \/>\nOr achieve the good,<br \/>\nWhere the strong and the wise have not the rod<br \/>\nTo use on the dull and weak.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/john-hancock-otis\/\">Previous: John Hancock Otis<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/john-cabanis\/\">Next: John Cabanis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both for the country and for the man, And for a country as well as a man, &#8216;Tis better to be feared than loved. And if this country would rather part With the friendship of every nation Than surrender its wealth, I say of a man &#8217;tis worse to lose Money than friends. And I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-610","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-findlay","tag-anthony-findlay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/610","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=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/610\/revisions\/708"}],"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=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}