{"id":2096,"date":"2025-05-03T17:09:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T17:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/the-eighth-deadly-sin\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T17:09:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T17:09:53","slug":"the-eighth-deadly-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-eighth-deadly-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eighth Deadly Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even if I had been brainwashed into being a terrorist,<br>\nthe disputed claim of being rewarded with 72 virgins<br>\nwouldn\u2019t be sufficient for me to slaughter innocent people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat? Would you want more virgins,\u201d you might ask?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. Not even a single virgin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never understood the lust for virgins often by men<br>\nwho are far from virginal themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Is it me, or is that hypocrisy?<\/p>\n<p>And, what about  female  terrorists?  I\u2019ve never heard<br>\nof them being rewarded with 72 male virgins.<\/p>\n<p>Where\u2019s the equality, the inclusion?<\/p>\n<p>And even if I were a terrorist and rewarded with 72 experienced women, what man living or dead could keep up with them?<\/p>\n<p>Plus, the audacity of seeing women as sexual commodities,<br>\nby men who owe their lives to women, and using them<br>\nas if they were insignificant playthings and merely rewards,<br>\nin my opinion that should be made number eight on the list of the seven deadly sins.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if I had been brainwashed into being a terrorist, the disputed claim of being rewarded with 72 virgins wouldn\u2019t be sufficient for me to slaughter innocent people. \u201cWhat? Would you want more virgins,\u201d you might ask? \u201cNo. Not even a single virgin.\u201d I\u2019ve never understood the lust for virgins often by men who are&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-eighth-deadly-sin\/\">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\/2096"}],"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=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}