{"id":617,"date":"2022-01-08T19:25:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T19:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=617"},"modified":"2022-01-09T15:49:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T15:49:09","slug":"editor-whedon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/editor-whedon\/","title":{"rendered":"Editor Whedon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-161.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-551\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-161.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To be able to see every side of every question;<br \/>\nTo be on every side, to be everything, to be nothing long;<br \/>\nTo pervert truth, to ride it for a purpose,<br \/>\nTo use great feelings and passions of the human family<br \/>\nFor base designs, for cunning ends,<br \/>\nTo wear a mask like the Greek actors\u2014<br \/>\nYour eight-page paper\u2014behind which you huddle,<br \/>\nBawling through the megaphone of big type:<br \/>\n\u201cThis is I, the giant.\u201d<br \/>\nThereby also living the life of a sneak-thief,<br \/>\nPoisoned with the anonymous words<br \/>\nOf your clandestine soul.<br \/>\nTo scratch dirt over scandal for money,<br \/>\nAnd exhume it to the winds for revenge,<br \/>\nOr to sell papers,<br \/>\nCrushing reputations, or bodies, if need be,<br \/>\nTo win at any cost, save your own life.<br \/>\nTo glory in demoniac power, ditching civilization,<br \/>\nAs a paranoiac boy puts a log on the track<br \/>\nAnd derails the express train.<br \/>\nTo be an editor, as I was.<br \/>\nThen to lie here close by the river over the place<br \/>\nWhere the sewage flows from the village,<br \/>\nAnd the empty cans and garbage are dumped,<br \/>\nAnd abortions are hidden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-77.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-196\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-77.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/carl-hamblin\/\">Previous: Carl Hamblin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/eugene-carman\/\">Next: Eugene Carman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be able to see every side of every question; To be on every side, to be everything, to be nothing long; To pervert truth, to ride it for a purpose, To use great feelings and passions of the human family For base designs, for cunning ends, To wear a mask like the Greek actors\u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-617","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-journalist","tag-editor-whedon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/617","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=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/617\/revisions\/788"}],"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=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}