{"id":741,"date":"2022-01-09T14:20:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T14:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=741"},"modified":"2022-01-09T16:02:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T16:02:19","slug":"jacob-godbey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/jacob-godbey\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Godbey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-182.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-545\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-182.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"104\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How did you feel, you libertarians,<br \/>\nWho spent your talents rallying noble reasons<br \/>\nAround the saloon, as if Liberty<br \/>\nWas not to be found anywhere except at the bar<br \/>\nOr at a table, guzzling?<br \/>\nHow did you feel, <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/benjamin-pantier\/\">Ben Pantier<\/a>, and the rest of you,<br \/>\nWho almost stoned me for a tyrant<br \/>\nGarbed as a moralist,<br \/>\nAnd as a wry-faced ascetic frowning upon Yorkshire pudding,<br \/>\nRoast beef and ale and good will and rosy cheer\u2014<br \/>\nThings you never saw in a grog-shop in your life?<br \/>\nHow did you feel after I was dead and gone,<br \/>\nAnd your goddess, Liberty, unmasked as a strumpet,<br \/>\nSelling out the streets of Spoon River<br \/>\nTo the insolent giants<br \/>\nWho manned the saloons from afar?<br \/>\nDid it occur to you that personal liberty<br \/>\nIs liberty of the mind,<br \/>\nRather than of the belly?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/batterton-dobyns\/\">Previous: Batterton Dobyns<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/walter-simmons\/\">Next: Walter Simmons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did you feel, you libertarians, Who spent your talents rallying noble reasons Around the saloon, as if Liberty Was not to be found anywhere except at the bar Or at a table, guzzling? How did you feel, Ben Pantier, and the rest of you, Who almost stoned me for a tyrant Garbed as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[58,133],"class_list":["post-741","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-benjamin-pantier","tag-jacob-godbey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/741","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=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/741\/revisions\/847"}],"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=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}