{"id":2678,"date":"2025-09-20T21:53:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/invasion-of-the-cryptids\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T21:53:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:53:34","slug":"invasion-of-the-cryptids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/invasion-of-the-cryptids\/","title":{"rendered":"Invasion of the Cryptids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At first the sightings were random<br>\nand suspected as mere hoaxes.<br>\nYears passed, the sightings, and<br>\nthe species of cryptids increased<br>\nand multiplied into the hundreds of<br>\nthousands, but few were taking<br>\nthe surges seriously, as if they were<br>\nall imaginary or just fabrications.<br>\nBut as people kept disappearing<br>\nnearly half a million or more,<br>\nalarms began sounding, the public<br>\nstarted panicking, the government<br>\nreacted, the military was on alert.<br>\nBut the military reaction was far<br>\ntoo late and was not a deterrent.<br>\nThe cryptids had the power of<br>\ninvisibility and could not be tracked<br>\nor killed in their unseen masquerades.<br>\nA few were blasted to death when<br>\nthey infrequently became visible, but<br>\nmost were not, and the cryptids began<br>\nslaughtering members of the military<br>\nand government officials en masse.<br>\nIn less than a year, every human on<br>\nthe planet was eradicated, and the<br>\nmillions of cryptids claimed earth as<br>\ntheir new territory, their new domain.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first the sightings were random and suspected as mere hoaxes. Years passed, the sightings, and the species of cryptids increased and multiplied into the hundreds of thousands, but few were taking the surges seriously, as if they were all imaginary or just fabrications. But as people kept disappearing nearly half a million or more,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/invasion-of-the-cryptids\/\">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\/2678"}],"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=2678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}