{"id":1987,"date":"2025-04-18T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/the-women-who-tamed-dragons\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T16:20:00","slug":"the-women-who-tamed-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-women-who-tamed-dragons\/","title":{"rendered":"The Women Who Tamed Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was thought in the west dragons were dangerous beasts<br>\nthat had to be killed because of their fire-breathing threat.<\/p>\n<p>But the dragons were really gentle creatures reacting to<br>\nthe attacks upon them to protect themselves<\/p>\n<p>as even any human would do if defamed and attacked<br>\nmercilessly. <\/p>\n<p>Four wise and tendered-hearted women didn\u2019t believe<br>\nthe fake news and the hype about dragons.<\/p>\n<p>They approached them without the preconceived notions,<br>\nthe news and the hype had poisoned so many others with.<\/p>\n<p>They approached them with respectful gentleness and disarming kindness,<br>\nand they tamed the dragons with love instead of subduing them with the sword.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was thought in the west dragons were dangerous beasts that had to be killed because of their fire-breathing threat. But the dragons were really gentle creatures reacting to the attacks upon them to protect themselves as even any human would do if defamed and attacked mercilessly. Four wise and tendered-hearted women didn\u2019t believe the&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-women-who-tamed-dragons\/\">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\/1987"}],"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=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}