{"id":884,"date":"2022-02-06T14:21:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T14:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=884"},"modified":"2022-02-06T15:23:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T15:23:40","slug":"e-c-culbertson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/e-c-culbertson\/","title":{"rendered":"E. C. Culbertson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it true, Spoon River,<br \/>\nThat in the hall-way of the New Court House<br \/>\nThere is a tablet of bronze<br \/>\nContaining the embossed faces<br \/>\nOf <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/editor-whedon\/\">Editor Whedon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/thomas-rhodes\/\">Thomas Rhodes<\/a>?<br \/>\nAnd is it true that my successful labors<br \/>\nIn the County Board, without which<br \/>\nNot one stone would have been placed on another,<br \/>\nAnd the contributions out of my own pocket<br \/>\nTo build the temple, are but memories among the people,<br \/>\nGradually fading away, and soon to descend<br \/>\nWith them to this oblivion where I lie?<br \/>\nIn truth, I can so believe.<br \/>\nFor it is a law of the Kingdom of Heaven<br \/>\nThat whoso enters the vineyard at the eleventh hour<br \/>\nShall receive a full day\u2019s pay.<br \/>\nAnd it is a law of the Kingdom of this World<br \/>\nThat those who first oppose a good work<br \/>\nSeize it and make it their own,<br \/>\nWhen the corner-stone is laid,<br \/>\nAnd memorial tablets are erected.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/jonathan-houghton\/\">Previous: Jonathan Houghton<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/shack-dye\/\">Next: Shack Dye<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it true, Spoon River, That in the hall-way of the New Court House There is a tablet of bronze Containing the embossed faces Of Editor Whedon and Thomas Rhodes? And is it true that my successful labors In the County Board, without which Not one stone would have been placed on another, And the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[168,199,96,29],"class_list":["post-884","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-county-board","tag-courthouse","tag-editor-whedon","tag-thomas-rhodes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/884","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=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/884\/revisions\/968"}],"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=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}