{"id":2719,"date":"2025-09-25T16:37:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/an-excellent-swimmer\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T16:37:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:37:39","slug":"an-excellent-swimmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/an-excellent-swimmer\/","title":{"rendered":"An Excellent Swimmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was a good kid<br>\nand an excellent swimmer.<br>\nOn a summer\u2019s day, he<br>\nwent missing.<br>\nA search ensued.<br>\nEventually after searching<br>\nhis known haunts,<br>\nhis body was found<br>\ndrowned in a pool<br>\nin a sand pit.<br>\nNever found out why<br>\nthis good kid<br>\nexcellent swimmer<br>\ndied in that pool.<br>\nIt made no sense.<br>\nI read of a phenomena,<br>\nshallow water blackout,<br>\nsadly that may have<br>\nhappened to him.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was a good kid and an excellent swimmer. On a summer\u2019s day, he went missing. A search ensued. Eventually after searching his known haunts, his body was found drowned in a pool in a sand pit. Never found out why this good kid excellent swimmer died in that pool. It made no sense. I&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/an-excellent-swimmer\/\">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\/2719"}],"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=2719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}