{"id":2698,"date":"2025-09-20T23:01:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/loveliness-is-lifes-prey\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T23:01:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:01:54","slug":"loveliness-is-lifes-prey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/loveliness-is-lifes-prey\/","title":{"rendered":"Loveliness Is Life&#8217;s Prey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In youth she was beautiful, none could compare<br>\nBut Life\u2019s right-hand man, Time, stole her beauty away<br>\nWhy oh why does life not let women stay fair?<br>\nWhy oh why does it make loveliness its prey?<br>\nWhy can\u2019t it be like Death who beauty restores?<br>\nWhen faded flowers will bloom evermore.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In youth she was beautiful, none could compare But Life\u2019s right-hand man, Time, stole her beauty away Why oh why does life not let women stay fair? Why oh why does it make loveliness its prey? Why can\u2019t it be like Death who beauty restores? When faded flowers will bloom evermore. Bob Boyd<\/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\/2698"}],"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=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}