{"id":2667,"date":"2025-09-18T15:19:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/the-fading-of-ones-history\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T15:19:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:19:51","slug":"the-fading-of-ones-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-fading-of-ones-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fading of One\u2019s History"},"content":{"rendered":"

The longer I live, the more I see how
\none\u2019s history begins to fade away
\nas time passes. <\/p>\n

Monumental events begin to seem
\nas if they never happened.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all like a dream that becomes more
\nand more indistinct. <\/p>\n

Some of it eventually is completely forgotten,
\nor you have to really think hard about your past
\nto get even a fleeting glimpse of it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like a preview of how with death and
\ntime everything you were and did will be
\nforever forgotten.<\/p>\n

Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The longer I live, the more I see how one\u2019s history begins to fade away as time passes. Monumental events begin to seem as if they never happened. It\u2019s all like a dream that becomes more and more indistinct. Some of it eventually is completely forgotten, or you have to really think hard about your… Continue reading →<\/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\/2667"}],"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=2667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}