{"id":875,"date":"2022-02-06T14:18:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T14:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=875"},"modified":"2022-02-06T15:24:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T15:24:05","slug":"enoch-dunlap","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/enoch-dunlap\/","title":{"rendered":"Enoch Dunlap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many times, during the twenty years<br \/>\nI was your leader, friends of Spoon River,<br \/>\nDid you neglect the convention and caucus,<br \/>\nAnd leave the burden on my hands<br \/>\nOf guarding and saving the people\u2019s cause?\u2014<br \/>\nSometimes because you were ill;<br \/>\nOr your grandmother was ill;<br \/>\nOr you drank too much and fell asleep;<br \/>\nOr else you said: \u201cHe is our leader,<br \/>\nAll will be well; he fights for us;<br \/>\nWe have nothing to do but follow.\u201d<br \/>\nBut oh, how you cursed me when I fell,<br \/>\nAnd cursed me, saying I had betrayed you,<br \/>\nIn leaving the caucus room for a moment,<br \/>\nWhen the people\u2019s enemies, there assembled,<br \/>\nWaited and watched for a chance to destroy<br \/>\nThe Sacred Rights of the People.<br \/>\nYou common rabble! I left the caucus<br \/>\nTo go to the urinal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/english-thornton\/\">Previous: English Thornton<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/ida-frickey\/\">Next: Ida Frickey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many times, during the twenty years I was your leader, friends of Spoon River, Did you neglect the convention and caucus, And leave the burden on my hands Of guarding and saving the people\u2019s cause?\u2014 Sometimes because you were ill; Or your grandmother was ill; Or you drank too much and fell asleep; Or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[189,190],"class_list":["post-875","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-caucus","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/875","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=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/875\/revisions\/957"}],"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=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}