{"id":611,"date":"2022-01-08T19:23:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T19:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=611"},"modified":"2022-01-08T20:14:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T20:14:40","slug":"john-cabanis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/john-cabanis\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cabanis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neither spite, fellow citizens,<br \/>\nNor forgetfulness of the shiftlessness.<br \/>\nAnd the lawlessness and waste<br \/>\nUnder democracy\u2019s rule in Spoon River<br \/>\nMade me desert the party of law and order<br \/>\nAnd lead the liberal party.<br \/>\nFellow citizens! I saw as one with second sight<br \/>\nThat every man of the millions of men<br \/>\nWho give themselves to Freedom,<br \/>\nAnd fail while Freedom fails,<br \/>\nEnduring waste and lawlessness,<br \/>\nAnd the rule of the weak and the blind,<br \/>\nDies in the hope of building earth,<br \/>\nLike the coral insect, for the temple<br \/>\nTo stand on at the last.<br \/>\nAnd I swear that Freedom will wage to the end<br \/>\nThe war for making every soul<br \/>\nWise and strong and as fit to rule<br \/>\nAs Plato\u2019s lofty guardians<br \/>\nIn a world republic girdled!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/anthony-findlay\/\">Previous: Anthony Findlay<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/the-unknown\/\">Next: The Unknown<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neither spite, fellow citizens, Nor forgetfulness of the shiftlessness. And the lawlessness and waste Under democracy\u2019s rule in Spoon River Made me desert the party of law and order And lead the liberal party. Fellow citizens! I saw as one with second sight That every man of the millions of men Who give themselves to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-611","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-john-cabanis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/611","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=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/611\/revisions\/709"}],"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=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}