{"id":2005,"date":"2025-04-20T20:18:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T20:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/three-ghosts-of-the-rehoboth-cemetery-in-rehoboth-massachusetts\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T20:18:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T20:18:24","slug":"three-ghosts-of-the-rehoboth-cemetery-in-rehoboth-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/three-ghosts-of-the-rehoboth-cemetery-in-rehoboth-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Ghosts of the Rehoboth Cemetery in Rehoboth, Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sinister little boy<br>\ndancing around<br>\ngravestones asks<br>\nvisitors to stay and<br>\nplay with him.<\/p>\n<p>A woman in white<br>\nhovers above<br>\nthe gravestones<br>\nbut says nothing.<\/p>\n<p>A man in dark<br>\n19th century<br>\nclothes named<br>\nEphraim with dark<br>\nsockets in place<br>\nof eyes, said to<br>\nyell at women<br>\nand scare them<br>\naway.<\/p>\n<p>What to make<br>\nof these ghosts<br>\nI cannot say.<\/p>\n<p>But many claim<br>\nto have seen them.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe these<br>\nspirits are real,<br>\nbut the bigger<br>\nquestion is if<br>\nthey are real,<br>\nwhy are they<br>\nstill on earth<br>\nand not<br>\nelsewhere<br>\nin the afterlife? <\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sinister little boy dancing around gravestones asks visitors to stay and play with him. A woman in white hovers above the gravestones but says nothing. A man in dark 19th century clothes named Ephraim with dark sockets in place of eyes, said to yell at women and scare them away. What to make of&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/three-ghosts-of-the-rehoboth-cemetery-in-rehoboth-massachusetts\/\">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":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005"}],"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=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}