{"id":2043,"date":"2025-04-26T16:15:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T16:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/another-person-murdered\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:15:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T16:15:26","slug":"another-person-murdered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/another-person-murdered\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Person Murdered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another person murdered in some faraway country<br>\nIt\u2019s kind of sad, but it\u2019s not you.<\/p>\n<p>Another person murdered in the city you live in.<br>\nIt\u2019s a little sadder, but it\u2019s not you.<\/p>\n<p>Murders happen every day, a thousand daily<br>\nall over the world.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s terribly sad that though you and I are<br>\nnot one of the murdered \u2013 so far \u2013 that we live<br>\nin a homicidal world where anyone could be<br>\nmurdered on any given day intentionally or<br>\nrandomly.<\/p>\n<p>Even though murders only happen to other<br>\npeople except you or me, unlike those<br>\nyou\u2019s or me\u2019s who are buried six feet under<br>\nin cemeteries, one day you and me, like<br>\nthem, could be another of the daily over<br>\n1,000 statistics.  <\/p>\n<p>Sure it seems doubtful, but as alluded to<br>\nin the previous paragraph, it probably seemed<br>\ndoubtful, and probably impossible,<br>\nto all those murdered and dead in their graves.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another person murdered in some faraway country It\u2019s kind of sad, but it\u2019s not you. Another person murdered in the city you live in. It\u2019s a little sadder, but it\u2019s not you. Murders happen every day, a thousand daily all over the world. It\u2019s terribly sad that though you and I are not one of&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/another-person-murdered\/\">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\/2043"}],"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=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}