{"id":2688,"date":"2025-09-20T22:23:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/some-people-want-to-live-to-be-a-hundred\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T22:23:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:23:01","slug":"some-people-want-to-live-to-be-a-hundred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/some-people-want-to-live-to-be-a-hundred\/","title":{"rendered":"Some People Want to Live to be a Hundred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people want<br>\nto live<br>\nto be a hundred<br>\nthey know nothing<br>\nabout the dark nights<br>\nof living<br>\ntoo long a life.<\/p>\n<p>They know<br>\nnothing<br>\nof the<br>\nmyriad illnesses<br>\nthat plague most<br>\naging<br>\nout of existence. <\/p>\n<p>The worst<br>\nthe mind\u2019s<br>\ndemise<br>\nwhen you<br>\nbecome<br>\noblivious of<br>\neverything<br>\neveryone<br>\nand your<br>\nvanished self.<\/p>\n<p>Despair<br>\nwhen<br>\nfriends, icons,<br>\nand<br>\nbeloved spouse<br>\npass away<br>\nso many gone<br>\nthe worst<br>\nyour spouse<br>\na deep abyss<br>\never surfacing<br>\nsadness.<\/p>\n<p>Of course<br>\nit\u2019s<br>\nnot all bad<br>\nthere\u2019s those<br>\nGolden Years<br>\non canes<br>\ncrutches,<br>\nand<br>\nin wheelchairs.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people want to live to be a hundred they know nothing about the dark nights of living too long a life. They know nothing of the myriad illnesses that plague most aging out of existence. The worst the mind\u2019s demise when you become oblivious of everything everyone and your vanished self. Despair when friends,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/some-people-want-to-live-to-be-a-hundred\/\">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\/2688"}],"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=2688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}