{"id":867,"date":"2022-02-06T14:15:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T14:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=867"},"modified":"2022-02-06T14:40:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T14:40:31","slug":"hiram-scates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/hiram-scates\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiram Scates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-192.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-540\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-192.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I tried to win the nomination<br \/>\nFor president of the County-board<br \/>\nAnd I made speeches all over the County<br \/>\nDenouncing Solomon Purple, my rival,<br \/>\nAs an enemy of the people,<br \/>\nIn league with the master-foes of man.<br \/>\nYoung idealists, broken warriors,<br \/>\nHobbling on one crutch of hope,<br \/>\nSouls that stake their all on the truth,<br \/>\nLosers of worlds at heaven\u2019s bidding,<br \/>\nFlocked about me and followed my voice<br \/>\nAs the savior of the County.<br \/>\nBut Solomon won the nomination;<br \/>\nAnd then I faced about,<br \/>\nAnd rallied my followers to his standard,<br \/>\nAnd made him victor, made him King<br \/>\nOf the Golden Mountain with the door<br \/>\nWhich closed on my heels just as I entered,<br \/>\nFlattered by Solomon\u2019s invitation,<br \/>\nTo be the County\u2014board\u2019s secretary.<br \/>\nAnd out in the cold stood all my followers:<br \/>\nYoung idealists, broken warriors<br \/>\nHobbling on one crutch of hope\u2014<br \/>\nSouls that staked their all on the truth,<br \/>\nLosers of worlds at heaven\u2019s bidding,<br \/>\nWatching the Devil kick the Millennium<br \/>\nOver the Golden Mountain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-193.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-539\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-193.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"76\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/percival-sharp\/\">Previous: Percival Sharp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/peleg-poague\/\">Next: Peleg Poague<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to win the nomination For president of the County-board And I made speeches all over the County Denouncing Solomon Purple, my rival, As an enemy of the people, In league with the master-foes of man. Young idealists, broken warriors, Hobbling on one crutch of hope, Souls that stake their all on the truth, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[168,167,128,166],"class_list":["post-867","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-county-board","tag-election","tag-politician","tag-solomon-purple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/867","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=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/867\/revisions\/949"}],"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=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}