{"id":2709,"date":"2025-09-23T01:31:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T01:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/frankensteins-brother-william\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T01:31:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T01:31:46","slug":"frankensteins-brother-william","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/2025\/09\/23\/frankensteins-brother-william\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankenstein\u2019s Brother William"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You never heard of Frankenstein\u2019s brother,<br \/>\nthe better half of the experimental duo.<br \/>\nHe never caused a ruckus.<br \/>\nHe never hurt anyone.<br \/>\nHe never showed his monstrous<br \/>\nface to the public.<br \/>\nHe knew the public would be horrified<br \/>\nby his ungodly appearance.<br \/>\nHe knew with pitchforks in hand,<br \/>\nthey would kill him.<br \/>\nHe studied all the books kept in his<br \/>\ncreator\u2019s library.<br \/>\nIn nature, he learned he had<br \/>\nan affinity with animals, perhaps they sensed<br \/>\nhe was in some ways like them.<br \/>\nWhen he read the dusty old Bible<br \/>\nin Dr. Frankenstein\u2019s library and<br \/>\na book about the desert fathers,<br \/>\nhe found his path in life, a safe alternative<br \/>\nfrom, like the animals, being hunted by men.<br \/>\nWith instinctive stealth and survival skills,<br \/>\nWilliam spent his life in caves, like the<br \/>\nancient ascetics seeking mystical union<br \/>\nand living off the the sustenance of the land,<br \/>\nthe birds and the beasts of the forest, his companions.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You never heard of Frankenstein\u2019s brother, the better half of the experimental duo. He never caused a ruckus. He never hurt anyone. He never showed his monstrous face to the public. He knew the public would be horrified by his ungodly appearance. He knew with pitchforks in hand, they would kill him. He studied all&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/2025\/09\/23\/frankensteins-brother-william\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=2709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}