{"id":2672,"date":"2025-09-19T19:21:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T19:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/can-the-dead-see-the-living\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T19:21:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T19:21:31","slug":"can-the-dead-see-the-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/can-the-dead-see-the-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the Dead See the Living?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generally I don\u2019t think the dead can see the living.<br>\nSome would say of course they cannot.<br>\nAfter all, they are dead and the dead stay dead.<br>\nWhat the living were, they are no more.<br>\nThe people they were, their bodies, their brains,<br>\nburied or incinerated into piles of burnt ashes.<br>\nSome are in landlocked waters or open seas .<br>\nYet there are those who hear from the dead,<br>\nthe ADCs, after death communications.<br>\nI believe many of these are genuine contacts.<br>\nI believe in these beyond life communications,<br>\nthe dead for moments can see and contact us.<br>\nPerhaps as a final farewell, an I\u2019m okay,<br>\nbefore they are withdrawn into the localities of<br>\nthe invisible, the unknowable beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally I don\u2019t think the dead can see the living. Some would say of course they cannot. After all, they are dead and the dead stay dead. What the living were, they are no more. The people they were, their bodies, their brains, buried or incinerated into piles of burnt ashes. Some are in landlocked&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/can-the-dead-see-the-living\/\">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\/2672"}],"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=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}