{"id":2006,"date":"2025-04-20T21:45:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T21:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/a-broken-heart-and-a-missing-person-in-louisiana\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T21:45:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T21:45:31","slug":"a-broken-heart-and-a-missing-person-in-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/a-broken-heart-and-a-missing-person-in-louisiana\/","title":{"rendered":"A Broken Heart and A Missing Person in Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Louisiana where he lived, he drove around one night<br>\nlike a madman in his old Honda trying to forget his ex<\/p>\n<p>who despite being engaged to him and planning<br>\non marrying him<\/p>\n<p>left him for his friend who was going to be<br>\nhis best man at their wedding.<\/p>\n<p>He drove on highways and byways all over Louisiana,<br>\nbut still couldn\u2019t get her out of his mind.<\/p>\n<p>The break up, the end of the engagement<br>\nand the marriage<\/p>\n<p>were too big a heartache for him and<br>\nwhen the police raced after him for speeding<\/p>\n<p>he lost control of his mind and became<br>\neven crazier and more reckless.<\/p>\n<p>Miraculously, he escaped from the police,<br>\nand seemed to have vanished from this earth.<\/p>\n<p>He was never found, but there\u2019s a crying male ghost<br>\nthat appears at the shores of Lake Pontchartrain,<\/p>\n<p>and there might be an old Honda buried in<br>\nthe water there.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Louisiana where he lived, he drove around one night like a madman in his old Honda trying to forget his ex who despite being engaged to him and planning on marrying him left him for his friend who was going to be his best man at their wedding. He drove on highways and byways&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/a-broken-heart-and-a-missing-person-in-louisiana\/\">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\/2006"}],"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=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}