{"id":2634,"date":"2025-09-06T17:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T17:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/grim-coming\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T17:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T17:08:09","slug":"grim-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/grim-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Grim Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He felt death coming,<br>\nas if it were tangible<br>\nlike a physical entity<br>\nmaybe it was<br>\nmaybe the grim<br>\nwas real to him and he<br>\nfelt that figurative<br>\nbeing perceptively coming<br>\nfor him<br>\nperceptively staking<br>\nhim<br>\nseeking his death<br>\nto add to the millions<br>\nupon millions of<br>\ndeaths worldwide<br>\nevery year<br>\nthe day he died he<br>\nbelieved he felt grim\u2019s<br>\narms around him<br>\nas a heart attack<br>\ntook him out<br>\nmaybe he was right<br>\nmaybe the collective<br>\nimagination conjured<br>\ngrim up to the point<br>\nsome sensitive believers<br>\ncan feel him coming<br>\nprovided they<br>\nbelieve in him <\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He felt death coming, as if it were tangible like a physical entity maybe it was maybe the grim was real to him and he felt that figurative being perceptively coming for him perceptively staking him seeking his death to add to the millions upon millions of deaths worldwide every year the day he died&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/grim-coming\/\">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\/2634"}],"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=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}