{"id":2638,"date":"2025-09-08T18:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/mellow-temperaments\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T18:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:07:10","slug":"mellow-temperaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/mellow-temperaments\/","title":{"rendered":"Mellow Temperaments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people go off too easily<br>\na minor car accident and they<br>\nbecome needlessly enraged.<br>\nOther people stay mellow; it\u2019s<br>\njust an accident after all.<br>\nIt\u2019s as if they have a mellow<br>\nbarometer inside their heads<br>\nthat keeps them calm no<br>\nmatter what happens to them.<br>\nI don\u2019t think that mellowness<br>\nis something you can cultivate<br>\nI think some are born with it.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people go off too easily a minor car accident and they become needlessly enraged. Other people stay mellow; it\u2019s just an accident after all. It\u2019s as if they have a mellow barometer inside their heads that keeps them calm no matter what happens to them. I don\u2019t think that mellowness is something you can&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/mellow-temperaments\/\">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\/2638"}],"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=2638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}