{"id":2026,"date":"2025-04-23T18:05:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T18:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/40000-to-60000-women-hanged-or-burned-at-the-stake\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T18:05:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T18:05:54","slug":"40000-to-60000-women-hanged-or-burned-at-the-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/40000-to-60000-women-hanged-or-burned-at-the-stake\/","title":{"rendered":"40,000 to 60,000 Women Hanged or Burned at the Stake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to imagine women were once hung or burned to death as witches<br>\nby men of faith who acted like men of demons.<\/p>\n<p>How could they not be moved by the pleas and the screams<br>\nfrom their torments and tortures?<\/p>\n<p>How could they be okay with mercilessly murdering women? <\/p>\n<p>How could they harbor such misogynistic superstitions and blind beliefs<br>\nthat led them to put innocent women to death? <\/p>\n<p>I cannot understand an infamy so cruel, so unfeeling, so heartless.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot understand how any men back then or now<br>\ncould murder or even attack a woman<\/p>\n<p>like a monster unleashed on earth from hell<\/p>\n<p>like a devil with a demon\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n<p>Though those women were tortured and<br>\nburned to death unjustly and wickedly centuries ago,<\/p>\n<p>thoughts of what happened to them<br>\nhaunt me and trouble me so.  <\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to imagine women were once hung or burned to death as witches by men of faith who acted like men of demons. How could they not be moved by the pleas and the screams from their torments and tortures? How could they be okay with mercilessly murdering women? How could they harbor such&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/40000-to-60000-women-hanged-or-burned-at-the-stake\/\">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\/2026"}],"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=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}