{"id":2675,"date":"2025-09-20T19:27:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/fun-and-games-or-an-old-mans-lament\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T19:27:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:27:52","slug":"fun-and-games-or-an-old-mans-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/fun-and-games-or-an-old-mans-lament\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun and Games or an Old Man\u2019s Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can remember in my youth kidding around with a woman<br>\nwhen after a while the fun and games would become serious,<br>\nwhile playing the games I began falling in love.<\/p>\n<p>Now old and nearly fossilized, all I have are my memories<br>\nof the fun and the games and wish I could play them again<br>\nbefore I\u2019m in the ground unable to have any more fun.<br>\nOr play any more games with women and love.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can remember in my youth kidding around with a woman when after a while the fun and games would become serious, while playing the games I began falling in love. Now old and nearly fossilized, all I have are my memories of the fun and the games and wish I could play them again&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/fun-and-games-or-an-old-mans-lament\/\">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\/2675"}],"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=2675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}