{"id":62,"date":"2022-01-06T23:57:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T23:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2022-01-07T23:09:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T23:09:00","slug":"minerva-jones","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/minerva-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Minerva Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"noindent\">I am Minerva, the village poetess,<br \/>\nHooted at, jeered at by the Yahoos of the street<br \/>\nFor my heavy body, cock-eye, and rolling walk,<br \/>\nAnd all the more when \u201cButch\u201d Weldy<br \/>\nCaptured me after a brutal hunt.<br \/>\nHe left me to my fate with Doctor Meyers;<br \/>\nAnd I sank into death, growing numb from the feet up,<br \/>\nLike one stepping deeper and deeper into a stream of ice.<br \/>\nWill some one go to the village newspaper,<br \/>\nAnd gather into a book the verses I wrote?\u2014<br \/>\nI thirsted so for love<br \/>\nI hungered so for life!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-45.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-45.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/benjamin-fraser\/\">Previous: Benjamin Fraser<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/indignation-jones\/\">Next: &#8220;Indignation&#8221; Jones<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Minerva, the village poetess, Hooted at, jeered at by the Yahoos of the street For my heavy body, cock-eye, and rolling walk, And all the more when \u201cButch\u201d Weldy Captured me after a brutal hunt. He left me to my fate with Doctor Meyers; And I sank into death, growing numb from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":21,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-jones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62","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=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions\/137"}],"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=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}