{"id":2299,"date":"2025-06-01T13:44:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T13:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/her-beauty-unbalanced-her\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T13:44:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T13:44:25","slug":"her-beauty-unbalanced-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/2025\/06\/01\/her-beauty-unbalanced-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Her Beauty Unbalanced Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Born beautiful, her beauty had consequences.<br \/>\nShe became self infatuated and obsessed<br \/>\nwith her beauty.<\/p>\n<p>Her looks dominated her life, became the<br \/>\ncenter of her superficial universe at the<br \/>\nexpensive of her mental development.<\/p>\n<p>She tolerated education. It had little importance<br \/>\nto her with the exception of beauty produces<br \/>\nand appearance enhancements.<\/p>\n<p>She wasn\u2019t conversant on many subjects,<br \/>\nbut it didn\u2019t matter; man fawned over her<br \/>\njust the same.<\/p>\n<p>When the years robbed her of  her beauty<br \/>\nand even surgeries and cosmetics<br \/>\ncould no longer sustain it, she nearly<br \/>\nkilled herself.<\/p>\n<p>Now when she looks in what used to be<br \/>\na complimentary mirror, she sees what<br \/>\nshe calls an old hag, and she bemoans<br \/>\nher lost beauty and the men who used<br \/>\nto fawn over her.<\/p>\n<p>Her beauty  gone forever, she often<br \/>\ncries and looks at photos of her glory days<br \/>\nas her life fades away.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born beautiful, her beauty had consequences. She became self infatuated and obsessed with her beauty. Her looks dominated her life, became the center of her superficial universe at the expensive of her mental development. She tolerated education. It had little importance to her with the exception of beauty produces and appearance enhancements. She wasn\u2019t conversant&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/2025\/06\/01\/her-beauty-unbalanced-her\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}