{"id":1986,"date":"2025-04-18T15:53:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T15:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/the-rape-of-a-woman\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T15:53:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T15:53:59","slug":"the-rape-of-a-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-rape-of-a-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rape of a Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve never understood how a man could<br>\nrape a woman.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never understood how a man could<br>\nviolate a woman despite her protests,<br>\npleadings, cries and screams.<\/p>\n<p>You have to be a soulless fucking monster,<br>\nevil and heartless as a goddamned demon<br>\nto attack and harm a woman like that,<\/p>\n<p>to inflict emotional scars on her that I<br>\nimagine last for her entire life.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, a rape is in a way worse than<br>\na murder. <\/p>\n<p>When murdered, you don\u2019t have to live<br>\nwith the anguish for the rest of your life.<\/p>\n<p>And were I able to change the laws, I\u2019d<br>\nmake the penalty for rape as severe as<br>\nthat of murder.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve never understood how a man could rape a woman. I\u2019ve never understood how a man could violate a woman despite her protests, pleadings, cries and screams. You have to be a soulless fucking monster, evil and heartless as a goddamned demon to attack and harm a woman like that, to inflict emotional scars on&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-rape-of-a-woman\/\">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\/1986"}],"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=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}