{"id":2122,"date":"2025-05-06T18:40:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T18:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/the-crow-man\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T18:40:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T18:40:34","slug":"the-crow-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-crow-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crow Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He told me had been a crow in a former life.<br>\nI wondered if he\u2019d lost his mental faculties.<br>\nThe strange things is he looked like one<br>\nBut in a good way. He had the raven hair<br>\nAnd unusual but compelling birdlike eyes,<br>\nAnd women found his looks attractive,<br>\nFlocked around him like birds around seed.<br>\nI\u2019ll never forget the day he asked me if<br>\nI believed his story about being a crow.<br>\nAfter I said sorry I just can\u2019t believe it,<br>\nHe spread his arms and cawed like a crow,<br>\nAnd the air was filled with hundreds of crows,<br>\nSo many they blocked out the sun.<br>\nI swear it was like a crow apocalypse,<br>\nAnd it scared the holy hell out of me.<br>\nHe cawed again and the crows flew away.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He told me had been a crow in a former life. I wondered if he\u2019d lost his mental faculties. The strange things is he looked like one But in a good way. He had the raven hair And unusual but compelling birdlike eyes, And women found his looks attractive, Flocked around him like birds around&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-crow-man\/\">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\/2122"}],"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=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}