{"id":2635,"date":"2025-09-06T18:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/a-bad-day-for-nightcrawlers\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T18:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:03:04","slug":"a-bad-day-for-nightcrawlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/a-bad-day-for-nightcrawlers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bad Day for NIghtcrawlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nightcrawlers rose to the earth\u2019s surface<br>\nafter the rains drenched it.<\/p>\n<p>They came up to migrate in the watery ground<br>\nto new homes and environments, a few of<br>\nthem to mate.<\/p>\n<p>They did not see the danger above, as robins<br>\nswooped down on them, capturing and devouring many.<\/p>\n<p>Those that stayed underground faced greater dangers<br>\nwhen moles tunneled into their domain and destroyed<br>\nthe entire nightcrawler population, nightcrawler doomsday,<br>\na worm apocalypse. <\/p>\n<p>Who would have thought being a worm would have posed<br>\nsuch deadly risks?<\/p>\n<p>Not even worms have any safety in this violent predatory world. <\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nightcrawlers rose to the earth\u2019s surface after the rains drenched it. They came up to migrate in the watery ground to new homes and environments, a few of them to mate. They did not see the danger above, as robins swooped down on them, capturing and devouring many. Those that stayed underground faced greater&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/a-bad-day-for-nightcrawlers\/\">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\/2635"}],"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=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}