{"id":2111,"date":"2025-05-05T09:22:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T09:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/the-saddest-words\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T09:22:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T09:22:02","slug":"the-saddest-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-saddest-words\/","title":{"rendered":"the saddest words"},"content":{"rendered":"

I once heard a saying
\nthe saddest words
\nthere ever were are
\nit might have been.
\nyou don\u2019t know this
\nbut that is us.
\njust because
\nyou\u2019d been hurt
\nyou let the love
\nwe could have had
\nfade away and
\nnever become
\nwhat could have been,
\nwhat should have been
\nthe greatest love of
\nour lives.<\/p>\n

Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I once heard a saying the saddest words there ever were are it might have been. you don\u2019t know this but that is us. just because you\u2019d been hurt you let the love we could have had fade away and never become what could have been, what should have been the greatest love of our… Continue reading →<\/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\/2111"}],"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=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}