{"id":732,"date":"2022-01-09T14:20:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T14:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=732"},"modified":"2022-01-09T15:52:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T15:52:10","slug":"mrs-purkapile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/mrs-purkapile\/","title":{"rendered":"Mrs. Purkapile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/roscoe-purkapile\/\">He<\/a> ran away and was gone for a year.<br \/>\nWhen he came home he told me the silly story<br \/>\nOf being kidnapped by pirates on Lake Michigan<br \/>\nAnd kept in chains so he could not write me.<br \/>\nI pretended to believe it, though I knew very well<br \/>\nWhat he was doing, and that he met<br \/>\nThe milliner, <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/mrs-williams\/\">Mrs. Williams<\/a>, now and then<br \/>\nWhen she went to the city to buy goods, as she said.<br \/>\nBut a promise is a promise<br \/>\nAnd marriage is marriage,<br \/>\nAnd out of respect for my own character<br \/>\nI refused to be drawn into a divorce<br \/>\nBy the scheme of a husband who had merely grown tired<br \/>\nOf his marital vow and duty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-172.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-548\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-172.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"46\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/roscoe-purkapile\/\">Previous: Roscoe Purkapile<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/josiah-tompkins\/\">Next: Josiah Tompkins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He ran away and was gone for a year. When he came home he told me the silly story Of being kidnapped by pirates on Lake Michigan And kept in chains so he could not write me. I pretended to believe it, though I knew very well What he was doing, and that he met [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[35,108,124,109],"class_list":["post-732","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-marriage","tag-mrs-purkapile","tag-mrs-williams","tag-roscoe-purkapile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/732","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=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/732\/revisions\/836"}],"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=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}