{"id":1278,"date":"2024-11-27T13:59:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T13:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/fairy-tale\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T13:59:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T13:59:04","slug":"fairy-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/2024\/11\/27\/fairy-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairy Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though getting back together was non negotiable for him,<br \/>\nhe sometimes thought about the good times they had<br \/>\nnow that he was an old man all alone at the end of his life.<\/p>\n<p>Despite her being an extrovert who always had to be away from home<br \/>\nand him being an introvert homebody preferring to be home more<br \/>\nthan always on the move with other people, there had been<br \/>\nsome great and memorable times.<\/p>\n<p>And though getting back together had been non negotiable for him,<br \/>\nhe was saddened by her death at age 58, probably from a cancer,<br \/>\nhe wished her well and hoped she had peace and eternal happiness<br \/>\non the other side of this impermanent life, and sometimes wished<br \/>\nthey could have had a compatible, lasting love.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes a fairy tale love is just a fairy tale.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though getting back together was non negotiable for him, he sometimes thought about the good times they had now that he was an old man all alone at the end of his life. Despite her being an extrovert who always had to be away from home and him being an introvert homebody preferring to be&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/2024\/11\/27\/fairy-tale\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}