{"id":2117,"date":"2025-05-06T02:52:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T02:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/hes-guarding-his-heart\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T02:52:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T02:52:50","slug":"hes-guarding-his-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/hes-guarding-his-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"He\u2019s Guarding His Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To my right on the Soundcloud music widget a guy is singing about guarding his heart.<\/p>\n<p>And he has a great voice as well.<\/p>\n<p>And I love that indie song.<\/p>\n<p>And the sage advice.<\/p>\n<p>If only I had taken his advice on occasions when I didn\u2019t guard my heart well enough.<\/p>\n<p>If only I hadn\u2019t been like that saying, \u201cFools rush in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But, alas, despite some of those unguarded, vulnerable heart decisions,<\/p>\n<p>if I could go back in time, I probably wouldn\u2019t guard my heart any better.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back, I really don\u2019t regret the times and the heartaches I had from not guarding my heart well.<\/p>\n<p>Like the saying, \u201cIt is better to have loved and lost,\u201d I really don\u2019t regret any of those unguarded heart decisions.<\/p>\n<p>In the greater scheme of things and life and death matters,    romantic mistakes and broken hearts are really insignificant to me now, and I like that my heart has become strengthened and battle hardened.<\/p>\n<p>And I think it&#8217;s better to take a chance on love, to, as the saying goes, throw caution to the winds, when like a miracle, into your lonely life a chance for love comes in.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To my right on the Soundcloud music widget a guy is singing about guarding his heart. And he has a great voice as well. And I love that indie song. And the sage advice. If only I had taken his advice on occasions when I didn\u2019t guard my heart well enough. If only I hadn\u2019t&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/hes-guarding-his-heart\/\">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\/2117"}],"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=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}