{"id":1935,"date":"2025-04-09T17:51:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T17:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/the-mysterious-black-eyed-children\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T17:51:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T17:51:53","slug":"the-mysterious-black-eyed-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-mysterious-black-eyed-children\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mysterious Black-Eyed Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conspiracy theory or urban legend,<br>\nsightings of black-eyed children are<br>\nreported around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Big black eyes, no whites, no irises,<br>\nthey emanate a menacing feeling.<\/p>\n<p>One, a little girl in a forest in Britain,<br>\nhad an unnaturally bent neck and<br>\na nonhuman, jerky running gait. <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes they are alleged to<br>\nappear at your door asking to<br>\ncome in.<\/p>\n<p>Instinctively you feel if you let<br>\nthem in, danger or death will follow.<\/p>\n<p>No one knows what these black-eyed<br>\nchildren are really about.<\/p>\n<p>No one knows if they are real or<br>\njust a conspiracy theory or an urban legend,<\/p>\n<p>except those who might have<br>\nseen them.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conspiracy theory or urban legend, sightings of black-eyed children are reported around the world. Big black eyes, no whites, no irises, they emanate a menacing feeling. One, a little girl in a forest in Britain, had an unnaturally bent neck and a nonhuman, jerky running gait. Sometimes they are alleged to appear at your door&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-mysterious-black-eyed-children\/\">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\/1935"}],"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=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}