{"id":1936,"date":"2025-04-09T18:37:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T18:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/when-souls-got-trapped-in-mirrors\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T18:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T18:37:27","slug":"when-souls-got-trapped-in-mirrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/when-souls-got-trapped-in-mirrors\/","title":{"rendered":"When Souls Got Trapped in Mirrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/soulmir-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8771\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was a time when some people in some countries covered their mirrors at night for fear of a soul getting trapped in a mirror when the soul was wandering in a dream.<\/p>\n<p>There was a time when some people in some countries covered their mirrors after someone died for fear the dead person\u2019s soul could get trapped in a mirror.<\/p>\n<p>I only know three things about mirrors:<\/p>\n<p>If you break one, you might get seven years of bad luck.<\/p>\n<p>If you truly are a vampire, you won\u2019t see yourself in one.<\/p>\n<p>If I look into a mirror, I always look much younger than I really am.<\/p>\n<p>For the last thing, I know it\u2019s an illusion because I look my true age in photos. <\/p>\n<p>On a related note, and speaking of souls, I know, unlike with some primitive beliefs, when I&#8217;m photographed my soul won\u2019t get trapped in a camera, fingers crossed. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time when some people in some countries covered their mirrors at night for fear of a soul getting trapped in a mirror when the soul was wandering in a dream. There was a time when some people in some countries covered their mirrors after someone died for fear the dead person\u2019s soul&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/when-souls-got-trapped-in-mirrors\/\">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\/1936"}],"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=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}