{"id":2682,"date":"2025-09-20T22:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/cracks\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T22:00:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:00:21","slug":"cracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/cracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Cracks"},"content":{"rendered":"

A second chance
\nfor love
\nso complete
\n\u2013 at first.
\nThen cracks
\nappeared.
\nHer habits
\nat first
\nendearing
\nbegan to wear.
\nHis drinking
\nokay \u2013 at first.
\nThen began to
\ntear the fabric
\nof their love.
\nIntolerable \u2013
\nnear the end.
\nMonths
\nof fighting
\nthen physical
\nabuse.
\nHim
\nlying dead
\nafter dinner
\npoisoned
\nto death.
\nHer
\nmillion dollar
\ninsurance
\npayout.<\/p>\n

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

A second chance for love so complete \u2013 at first. Then cracks appeared. Her habits at first endearing began to wear. His drinking okay \u2013 at first. Then began to tear the fabric of their love. Intolerable \u2013 near the end. Months of fighting then physical abuse. Him lying dead after dinner poisoned to death.… 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\/2682"}],"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=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}