{"id":2723,"date":"2025-09-26T18:22:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/ode-to-karens\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T18:22:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:22:57","slug":"ode-to-karens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/ode-to-karens\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Karens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To all the women and girls named<br>\nKaren who never act inappropriately<br>\nor crazy,<\/p>\n<p>I hate how your name has become<br>\nsynonymously when women who do.<\/p>\n<p>I hate how fate and chance have put<br>\nthat stigma on innocent you.<\/p>\n<p>The curses of Medusa upon the cad<br>\nwho put that unfair curse on you.<\/p>\n<p>I pine for the day when the Karen fad<br>\nwill pass,<\/p>\n<p>and you can return to a normalized life<br>\nwithout your name <\/p>\n<p>defamed and linked to deranged<br>\nbehavior. <\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To all the women and girls named Karen who never act inappropriately or crazy, I hate how your name has become synonymously when women who do. I hate how fate and chance have put that stigma on innocent you. The curses of Medusa upon the cad who put that unfair curse on you. I pine&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/ode-to-karens\/\">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\/2723"}],"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=2723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}