{"id":2156,"date":"2025-05-10T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/a-tragic-one-mile-run\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T20:07:00","slug":"a-tragic-one-mile-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/a-tragic-one-mile-run\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tragic One Mile Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young woman goes on a one mile run<br>\non the side of a country highway,<br>\n24, beautiful, a nurse tending the sick<br>\nin a small rural town, population 300.<br>\nA safe haven, hardly ever any crime.<br>\nThe young women never returns home<br>\nfrom her run.<\/p>\n<p>A search is conducted. She is not<br>\nfound.<\/p>\n<p>A man reports to the police that he<br>\nsaw her running at a specific location<br>\non the highway.<\/p>\n<p>Days later, her body is found buried<br>\nunder some leaves without her clothes.<\/p>\n<p>A day later, the police have a suspect.<\/p>\n<p>The man who reported seeing her on<br>\nthe highway.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s from a respected family in the<br>\ncommunity, has a wife and 3 kids.<\/p>\n<p>At first he said he accidentally hit her<br>\nwith his car and buried her out of fear.<\/p>\n<p>His alibi proves false. He knocked her<br>\nout, violated her and murdered her.<br>\nAnd he gets put in prison for life.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly in this world, that the Catholics<br>\ncall the veil of tears, nowhere is<br>\ncompletely safe.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s heartbreaking and beyond tragic<br>\nthat so many women and girls are<br>\nbrutally taken out of this world.<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 140 daily.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young woman goes on a one mile run on the side of a country highway, 24, beautiful, a nurse tending the sick in a small rural town, population 300. A safe haven, hardly ever any crime. The young women never returns home from her run. A search is conducted. She is not found. A&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/a-tragic-one-mile-run\/\">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\/2156"}],"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=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}