{"id":2120,"date":"2025-05-06T12:53:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T12:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/not-of-this-world\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T12:53:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T12:53:05","slug":"not-of-this-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/not-of-this-world\/","title":{"rendered":"not of this world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a friend once told me a woman he was involved with<br>\nsaid they were not of this world<\/p>\n<p>at the time he told me that I was probably in<br>\nmy twenties<\/p>\n<p>and thought in a way it sound kind of nice<br>\nlike they were uniquely made for each other<\/p>\n<p>and different from most people who seem to<br>\nbe very much of this world<\/p>\n<p>now with more years on me and more experiences<br>\nin life<\/p>\n<p>I think the woman who loved my friend was right<br>\nbut maybe in a way you had not imagined I would<\/p>\n<p>for many the average time spent on this earth is<br>\nabout 76 years of age, a blink in eternity<\/p>\n<p>and if we live forever in some kind of afterlife<br>\nmaybe none of us are really of this world<\/p>\n<p>or if reincarnation is real and we are just here<br>\nfor temporary lives<\/p>\n<p>until we get off the wheel of rebirths<br>\nto me that would also suggest we are not really of this world  <\/p>\n<p>bob boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a friend once told me a woman he was involved with said they were not of this world at the time he told me that I was probably in my twenties and thought in a way it sound kind of nice like they were uniquely made for each other and different from most people who&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/not-of-this-world\/\">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\/2120"}],"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=2120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}