{"id":2710,"date":"2025-09-23T11:13:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/closer-to-the-light\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:13:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:13:22","slug":"closer-to-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/closer-to-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Closer to the Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if souls become gentler, mellower<br>\nin the incomprehensible after life.<br>\nDoes the transition from bone, flesh,and blood<br>\nto bodiless spirit refine one\u2019s character<br>\nand ennoble most souls?<br>\nAre the less desirable traits erased,<br>\nlike a character reboot?<br>\nOr do we remain the same, character defects<br>\nand embodied behaviors?<br>\nI like to think we\u2019d be better versions<br>\nof what we\u2019d been when earthbound<br>\nand closer to the Light.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if souls become gentler, mellower in the incomprehensible after life. Does the transition from bone, flesh,and blood to bodiless spirit refine one\u2019s character and ennoble most souls? Are the less desirable traits erased, like a character reboot? Or do we remain the same, character defects and embodied behaviors? I like to think we\u2019d&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/closer-to-the-light\/\">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\/2710"}],"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=2710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}