{"id":725,"date":"2022-01-09T14:20:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T14:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=725"},"modified":"2022-01-09T15:48:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T15:48:51","slug":"w-lloyd-garrison-standard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/w-lloyd-garrison-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"W. Lloyd Garrison Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vegetarian, non\u2014resistant, free-thinker, in ethics a Christian;<br \/>\nOrator apt at the rhine-stone rhythm of Ingersoll.<br \/>\nCarnivorous, avenger, believer and pagan.<br \/>\nContinent, promiscuous, changeable, treacherous, vain,<br \/>\nProud, with the pride that makes struggle a thing for laughter;<br \/>\nWith heart cored out by the worm of theatric despair.<br \/>\nWearing the coat of indifference to hide the shame of defeat;<br \/>\nI, child of the abolitionist idealism\u2014<br \/>\nA sort of\u00a0<i>Brand<\/i>\u00a0in a birth of half-and-half.<br \/>\nWhat other thing could happen when I defended<br \/>\nThe patriot scamps who burned the court house<br \/>\nThat Spoon River might have a new one<br \/>\nThan plead them guilty?<br \/>\nWhen <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/kinsey-keene\/\">Kinsey Keene<\/a> drove through<br \/>\nThe card\u2014board mask of my life with a spear of light,<br \/>\nWhat could I do but slink away, like the beast of myself<br \/>\nWhich I raised from a whelp, to a corner and growl?<br \/>\nThe pyramid of my life was nought but a dune,<br \/>\nBarren and formless, spoiled at last by the storm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/clarence-fawcett\/\">Previous: Clarence Fawcett<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/professor-newcomer\/\">Next: Professor Newcomer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vegetarian, non\u2014resistant, free-thinker, in ethics a Christian; Orator apt at the rhine-stone rhythm of Ingersoll. Carnivorous, avenger, believer and pagan. Continent, promiscuous, changeable, treacherous, vain, Proud, with the pride that makes struggle a thing for laughter; With heart cored out by the worm of theatric despair. Wearing the coat of indifference to hide the shame [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[30,116],"class_list":["post-725","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-kinsey-keene","tag-w-lloyd-garrison-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/725","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=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/725\/revisions\/830"}],"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=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}