{"id":616,"date":"2022-01-08T19:24:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T19:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=616"},"modified":"2022-01-08T20:12:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T20:12:10","slug":"carl-hamblin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/carl-hamblin\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Hamblin"},"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>The press of the Spoon River\u00a0<i>Clarion<\/i>\u00a0was wrecked,<br \/>\nAnd I was tarred and feathered,<br \/>\nFor publishing this on the day the<br \/>\nAnarchists were hanged in Chicago:<br \/>\n\u201cI saw a beautiful woman with bandaged eyes<br \/>\nStanding on the steps of a marble temple.<br \/>\nGreat multitudes passed in front of her,<br \/>\nLifting their faces to her imploringly.<br \/>\nIn her left hand she held a sword.<br \/>\nShe was brandishing the sword,<br \/>\nSometimes striking a child, again a laborer,<br \/>\nAgain a slinking woman, again a lunatic.<br \/>\nIn her right hand she held a scale;<br \/>\nInto the scale pieces of gold were tossed<br \/>\nBy those who dodged the strokes of the sword.<br \/>\nA man in a black gown read from a manuscript:<br \/>\n&#8216;She is no respecter of persons.&#8217;<br \/>\nThen a youth wearing a red cap<br \/>\nLeaped to her side and snatched away the bandage.<br \/>\nAnd lo, the lashes had been eaten away<br \/>\nFrom the oozy eye-lids;<br \/>\nThe eye-balls were seared with a milky mucus;<br \/>\nThe madness of a dying soul<br \/>\nWas written on her face\u2014<br \/>\nBut the multitude saw why she wore the bandage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-38-AI.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-38-AI.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/widow-mcfarlane\/\">Previous: Widow McFarlane<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/editor-whedon\/\">Next: Editor Whedon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The press of the Spoon River\u00a0Clarion\u00a0was wrecked, And I was tarred and feathered, For publishing this on the day the Anarchists were hanged in Chicago: \u201cI saw a beautiful woman with bandaged eyes Standing on the steps of a marble temple. Great multitudes passed in front of her, Lifting their faces to her imploringly. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[92,94,93,91],"class_list":["post-616","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-anarchists","tag-carl-hamblin","tag-justice","tag-spoon-river-clarion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/616","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=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/616\/revisions\/719"}],"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=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}