{"id":2642,"date":"2025-09-10T16:10:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/three-children-in-a-family-one-goes-bad\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T16:10:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:10:21","slug":"three-children-in-a-family-one-goes-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/three-children-in-a-family-one-goes-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Children in a Family, One Goes Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One a doctor. One a lawyer. One a criminal.<br>\nWhat went wrong with the one that went bad?<br>\nWere the seeds for going wrong in all of them,<br>\nbut two were more resistant to the temptations?<br>\nWas the one that went bad the weaker strain?<br>\nOr was there a slight deviation in the bad one\u2019s genes<br>\nthat irresistibly compelled him to crime?<br>\nOr is it  an ingrained mental health problem?<br>\nIt\u2019s a curious matter when in a good family two go right<br>\nand one goes wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One a doctor. One a lawyer. One a criminal. What went wrong with the one that went bad? Were the seeds for going wrong in all of them, but two were more resistant to the temptations? Was the one that went bad the weaker strain? Or was there a slight deviation in the bad one\u2019s&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/three-children-in-a-family-one-goes-bad\/\">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\/2642"}],"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=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}