{"id":2661,"date":"2025-09-16T15:11:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/goodness-abounds\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T15:11:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:11:53","slug":"goodness-abounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/goodness-abounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodness Abounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite all the evil in the world,<br>\ngoodness abounds.<br>\nDespite the murders, the rapes,<br>\nthe pedophilia, goodness abounds.<br>\nAt times when I feel down about it<br>\nI remember goodness abounds.<br>\nBut I often wonder why we have<br>\nto have so much evil in this world,<br>\nwhy evil also has to abound.<br>\nBest I can do, is just try to accept<br>\nthe world for the way it is, and<br>\ntake heart in what I see is not<br>\nforever. When death comes, none<br>\nof it will ever affect me again.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite all the evil in the world, goodness abounds. Despite the murders, the rapes, the pedophilia, goodness abounds. At times when I feel down about it I remember goodness abounds. But I often wonder why we have to have so much evil in this world, why evil also has to abound. Best I can do,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/goodness-abounds\/\">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\/2661"}],"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=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}