{"id":2157,"date":"2025-05-11T02:15:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T02:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/elderly-man-and-his-dog-killed-by-a-bear\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T02:15:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T02:15:22","slug":"elderly-man-and-his-dog-killed-by-a-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/elderly-man-and-his-dog-killed-by-a-bear\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly Man and His Dog Killed by a Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>89-year-old man and his dog<br>\nkilled on May 5th by a massive<br>\nblack bear on his property<br>\noutside his camper 70 miles<br>\nsouth of Fort Myers, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>His daughter witnessed the<br>\nmurder. I can\u2019t even begin<br>\nto imagine the horror.<\/p>\n<p>It seems deadly bear attacks<br>\nare rare. Tragic and said<br>\nthis elderly man had to be<br>\nthe exception and go out of<br>\nthis world in such an awful<br>\nway. Tragic and sad so many<br>\npeople in this world die awfully.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s my belief this man is in a<br>\nbetter place now, but for any<br>\nof his loved ones remaining<br>\nthere\u2019s still the loss and when<br>\nI or anyone else says the<br>\nexpression, I\u2019m sure he\u2019s in<br>\na better place now, there are<br>\nno guarantees. <\/p>\n<p>But I hope there is a guarantee,<br>\nand like in most of the NDE<br>\nreports about the afterlife, I<br>\nhope the better place they<br>\nsee is real, and I hope that<br>\nelderly man is in it.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>89-year-old man and his dog killed on May 5th by a massive black bear on his property outside his camper 70 miles south of Fort Myers, Florida. His daughter witnessed the murder. I can\u2019t even begin to imagine the horror. It seems deadly bear attacks are rare. Tragic and said this elderly man had to&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/elderly-man-and-his-dog-killed-by-a-bear\/\">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\/2157"}],"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=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}