{"id":873,"date":"2022-02-06T14:18:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T14:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=873"},"modified":"2022-02-06T15:24:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T15:24:08","slug":"voltaire-johnson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/voltaire-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Voltaire Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why did you bruise me with your rough places<br \/>\nIf you did not want me to tell you about them?<br \/>\nAnd stifle me with your stupidities,<br \/>\nIf you did not want me to expose them?<br \/>\nAnd nail me with the nails of cruelty,<br \/>\nIf you did not want me to pluck the nails forth<br \/>\nAnd fling them in your faces?<br \/>\nAnd starve me because I refused to obey you,<br \/>\nIf you did not want me to undermine your tyranny?<br \/>\nI might have been as soul serene<br \/>\nAs William Wordsworth except for you!<br \/>\nBut what a coward you are, Spoon River,<br \/>\nWhen you drove me to stand in a magic circle<br \/>\nBy the sword of Truth described!<br \/>\nAnd then to whine and curse your burns,<br \/>\nAnd curse my power who stood and laughed<br \/>\nAmid ironical lightning!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/elliott-hawkins\/\">Previous: Elliott Hawkins<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/english-thornton\/\">Next: English Thornton<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did you bruise me with your rough places If you did not want me to tell you about them? And stifle me with your stupidities, If you did not want me to expose them? And nail me with the nails of cruelty, If you did not want me to pluck the nails forth And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[187],"class_list":["post-873","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-william-wordsworth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/873","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=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/873\/revisions\/955"}],"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=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}