{"id":737,"date":"2022-01-09T14:20:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T14:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=737"},"modified":"2022-01-09T16:00:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T16:00:12","slug":"lambert-hutchins","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/lambert-hutchins\/","title":{"rendered":"Lambert Hutchins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have two monuments besides this granite obelisk:<br \/>\nOne, the house I built on the hill,<br \/>\nWith its spires, bay windows, and roof of slate.<br \/>\nThe other, the lake-front in Chicago,<br \/>\nWhere the railroad keeps a switching yard,<br \/>\nWith whistling engines and crunching wheels<br \/>\nAnd smoke and soot thrown over the city,<br \/>\nAnd the crash of cars along the boulevard,\u2014<br \/>\nA blot like a hog-pen on the harbor<br \/>\nOf a great metropolis, foul as a sty.<br \/>\nI helped to give this heritage<br \/>\nTo generations yet unborn, with my vote<br \/>\nIn the House of Representatives,<br \/>\nAnd the lure of the thing was to be at rest<br \/>\nFrom the never\u2014ending fright of need,<br \/>\nAnd to give my daughters gentle breeding,<br \/>\nAnd a sense of security in life.<br \/>\nBut, you see, though I had the mansion house<br \/>\nAnd traveling passes and local distinction,<br \/>\nI could hear the whispers, whispers, whispers,<br \/>\nWherever I went, and my <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/lillian-stewart\/\">daughters<\/a> grew up<br \/>\nWith a look as if some one were about to strike them;<br \/>\nAnd they married madly, helter-skelter,<br \/>\nJust to get out and have a change.<br \/>\nAnd what was the whole of the business worth?<br \/>\nWhy, it wasn\u2019t worth a damn!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/bert-kessler\/\">Previous: Bert Kessler<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/lillian-stewart\/\">Next: Lillian Stewart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have two monuments besides this granite obelisk: One, the house I built on the hill, With its spires, bay windows, and roof of slate. The other, the lake-front in Chicago, Where the railroad keeps a switching yard, With whistling engines and crunching wheels And smoke and soot thrown over the city, And the crash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[127,129,128],"class_list":["post-737","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-lambert-hutchins","tag-lillian-stewart","tag-politician"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/737","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=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/737\/revisions\/843"}],"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=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}