{"id":2540,"date":"2025-08-08T16:19:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/inspiring-man-in-a-wheelchair\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T16:19:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:19:04","slug":"inspiring-man-in-a-wheelchair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/2025\/08\/08\/inspiring-man-in-a-wheelchair\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiring Man in a Wheelchair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At age 16, he dove into a pool<br \/>\nand hit his head on the bottom.<br \/>\nSomehow he made it to the surface,<br \/>\nbut was paralyzed from the waist down.<br \/>\nHe spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair.<br \/>\nSomehow he stayed cheerful and positive.<br \/>\nNever seemed to let his misfortune stop him.<br \/>\nHad a great job helping people for a living,<br \/>\nAttracted more women sitting in his wheelchair<br \/>\nThen I ever could standing on my feet.<br \/>\nHe inspired me the way he led a great life<br \/>\nDespite his challenges with a lifelong disability.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At age 16, he dove into a pool and hit his head on the bottom. Somehow he made it to the surface, but was paralyzed from the waist down. He spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. Somehow he stayed cheerful and positive. Never seemed to let his misfortune stop him. Had a&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/2025\/08\/08\/inspiring-man-in-a-wheelchair\/\">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-2540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540","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=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}