{"id":2640,"date":"2025-09-09T17:11:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/of-the-collective-imagination-and-demons\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T17:11:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:11:55","slug":"of-the-collective-imagination-and-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/of-the-collective-imagination-and-demons\/","title":{"rendered":"Of the Collective Imagination and Demons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not a believer in demons.<br>\nBut I believe a collective imagination<br>\ncould conjure up fake dreams;<br>\nas in people believing in them<br>\ndespite their nonexistence;<br>\nas in people feeling affected by them;<br>\nas in people believing demons were<br>\nnearly everywhere waiting to harass them<br>\nor lead them down dark paths.<br>\nI think the mind could be like a powerful tool<br>\nwhere one\u2019s dark imaginings could be<br>\nturned inward against one.<br>\nThus, I choose not to believe in demons<br>\nor entertain any thoughts about them.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not a believer in demons. But I believe a collective imagination could conjure up fake dreams; as in people believing in them despite their nonexistence; as in people feeling affected by them; as in people believing demons were nearly everywhere waiting to harass them or lead them down dark paths. I think the mind&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/of-the-collective-imagination-and-demons\/\">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\/2640"}],"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=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}