{"id":1901,"date":"2025-04-03T15:15:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T15:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/an-ominous-letter-from-the-north-carolina-department-of-revenue\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T15:15:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T15:15:33","slug":"an-ominous-letter-from-the-north-carolina-department-of-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/an-ominous-letter-from-the-north-carolina-department-of-revenue\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ominous Letter From the North Carolina Department of Revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went downstairs to check my mail, and, shudder, I saw a letter from the North Carolina Department of Revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Oh no, I thought, they\u2019re after me for more tax money. Turbo Tax must have screwed up, and now I have to send God knows how much more tax money to them thanks to an error not of my making. <\/p>\n<p>With trembling hands, an increasing pulse rate, my heartbeat quickening, a sickening feeling in my stomach, a sense of dread in my mind, I reluctantly peel the foreboding envelope open. <\/p>\n<p>With a sigh and tremendous relief, I  discover a single page with a check for $120 attached to the bottom of it. <\/p>\n<p>Whew! Sometimes in this life you get a break. <\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went downstairs to check my mail, and, shudder, I saw a letter from the North Carolina Department of Revenue. Oh no, I thought, they\u2019re after me for more tax money. Turbo Tax must have screwed up, and now I have to send God knows how much more tax money to them thanks to an&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/an-ominous-letter-from-the-north-carolina-department-of-revenue\/\">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":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901"}],"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=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}