{"id":734,"date":"2022-01-09T14:20:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T14:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=734"},"modified":"2022-01-09T15:53:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T15:53:47","slug":"mrs-kessler","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/mrs-kessler\/","title":{"rendered":"Mrs. Kessler"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"chapter\">\n<p class=\"noindent\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/bert-kessler\/\">Mr. Kessler<\/a>, you know, was in the army,<br \/>\nAnd he drew six dollars a month as a pension,<br \/>\nAnd stood on the corner talking politics,<br \/>\nOr sat at home reading Grant\u2019s Memoirs;<br \/>\nAnd I supported the family by washing,<br \/>\nLearning the secrets of all the people<br \/>\nFrom their curtains, counterpanes, shirts and skirts.<br \/>\nFor things that are new grow old at length,<br \/>\nThey\u2019re replaced with better or none at all:<br \/>\nPeople are prospering or falling back.<br \/>\nAnd rents and patches widen with time;<br \/>\nNo thread or needle can pace decay,<br \/>\nAnd there are stains that baffle soap,<br \/>\nAnd there are colors that run in spite of you,<br \/>\nBlamed though you are for spoiling a dress.<br \/>\nHandkerchiefs, napery, have their secrets\u2014<br \/>\nThe laundress, Life, knows all about it.<br \/>\nAnd I, who went to all the funerals<br \/>\nHeld in Spoon River, swear I never<br \/>\nSaw a dead face without thinking it looked<br \/>\nLike something washed and ironed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/josiah-tompkins\/\">Previous: Josiah Tompkins<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/harmon-whitney\/\">Next: Harmon Whitney<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Kessler, you know, was in the army, And he drew six dollars a month as a pension, And stood on the corner talking politics, Or sat at home reading Grant\u2019s Memoirs; And I supported the family by washing, Learning the secrets of all the people From their curtains, counterpanes, shirts and skirts. For things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[106,105],"class_list":["post-734","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-bert-kessler","tag-mrs-kessler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/734","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=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":839,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/734\/revisions\/839"}],"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=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}