{"id":2989,"date":"2018-07-05T13:50:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T17:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/HatchetOnline\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2018-07-05T13:50:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T17:50:21","slug":"why-im-leaving-maplecroft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/why-im-leaving-maplecroft\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I’m Leaving Maplecroft"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Mary Elizabeth Naugle<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

First published in June\/July, 2004, Volume 1, Issue 3, The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

They say I\u2019m leaving Maplecroft<\/span>
\nBecause of Nance O\u2019Neil.<\/span>
\nThey say her ways are shocking,<\/span>
\nAnd now showfolk\u00a0<\/span>are flocking<\/span>
\nTo infect Fall River with their wanton zeal.<\/span><\/p>\n

They say I\u2019m leaving Maplecroft<\/span>
\nBecause of the chauffeur.<\/span>
\nHow frank familiarity<\/span>
\nWas verging on vulgarity<\/span>
\nThat Lizzie valued though it cheapened her.<\/span><\/p>\n

They say I\u2019m leaving Maplecroft<\/span>
\nBecause I am afraid<\/span>
\nShe really did do murder<\/span>
\nAnd might think one more won\u2019t hurt her<\/span>
\nIf\u00a0 <\/span>I should ever rain on her parade.<\/span><\/p>\n

But this talk is nothing new.<\/span>
\nThey have nothing else to do<\/span>
\nBut to chew on borrowed scandal as if \u2018twere mutton stew.<\/span><\/p>\n

They said when Lizzie walked back into church so brazenly<\/span>
\nThat the petticoats shrank back from her, a frothy new Red Sea.<\/span><\/p>\n

They said, \u201cThat social climber\u2019s going to scale the Highlands Hill<\/span>
\nAfter viewing the White City from that wheel that makes you ill!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

They say she leads a hard life, conscience stricken and alone.<\/span>
\nAs if she has no sister there–that sister makes no moan.<\/span>
\nEm makes poor publicity; she\u2019s too dull for the press.<\/span>
\nShe never killed her parents, and she never burned a dress.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not leaving for the things that people\u00a0 <\/span>say,<\/span>
\nBelieve you me.<\/span>
\nI\u2019m leaving just because those things are never about me.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Lizzie Borden poem by Mary Elizabeth Naugle.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":2897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}