{"id":2578,"date":"2025-08-19T19:31:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/if-death-were-like-sleep\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T19:31:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:31:40","slug":"if-death-were-like-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/2025\/08\/19\/if-death-were-like-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"If Death Were Like Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It occurred to me today<br \/>\nthat I would be okay<\/p>\n<p>if death were like sleep<br \/>\nwithout the dreams<\/p>\n<p>a restful undisturbed<br \/>\nlasting peace<\/p>\n<p>no cares<br \/>\nno worries<br \/>\nbeyond it all<\/p>\n<p>no needs<br \/>\nno disappointments<br \/>\nlike a tranquil twilight<br \/>\nin a darkened night<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurred to me today that I would be okay if death were like sleep without the dreams a restful undisturbed lasting peace no cares no worries beyond it all no needs no disappointments like a tranquil twilight in a darkened night Bob Boyd<\/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-2578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578","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=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}