{"id":1916,"date":"2025-04-06T03:35:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T03:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/to-me-cemeteries-are-places-of-peace\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T03:35:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T03:35:53","slug":"to-me-cemeteries-are-places-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/to-me-cemeteries-are-places-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"To Me Cemeteries Are Places of Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it sounds strange, but to me cemeteries<br>\nare places of peace. I don\u2019t make it a habit of<br>\nvisiting them. I haven\u2019t been to one in years and<br>\nwill probably never visit one again in my life.<\/p>\n<p>But the times I\u2019ve visited them I always felt a<br>\nsense of peace, sometimes sadness. The<br>\nsadness was when I would see tombstones<br>\nof children who never had a chance to really live.<\/p>\n<p>Once while on a hike, I found an old abandoned<br>\ncemetery in a forest. The markers were worn<br>\nand barely readable, and I remember some<br>\nof the deceased had been born in the 1800s. <\/p>\n<p>Though I don\u2019t consider myself superstitious,<br>\nI wouldn\u2019t find cemeteries peaceful at night.<br>\nI\u2019d be too creeped out and a little fearful.<br>\nMaybe I\u2019ve seen too many horror movies.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it sounds strange, but to me cemeteries are places of peace. I don\u2019t make it a habit of visiting them. I haven\u2019t been to one in years and will probably never visit one again in my life. But the times I\u2019ve visited them I always felt a sense of peace, sometimes sadness. The sadness&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/to-me-cemeteries-are-places-of-peace\/\">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\/1916"}],"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=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}