{"id":2724,"date":"2025-09-27T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/he-was-like-a-jungle-animal\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:10:00","slug":"he-was-like-a-jungle-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/he-was-like-a-jungle-animal\/","title":{"rendered":"He Was Like a Jungle Animal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>he prowled the city streets hunting<br>\nfor prey<\/p>\n<p>he beat his many victims nearly<br>\nto death<\/p>\n<p>he robbed them of their money<br>\nstole their watches and jewelry<\/p>\n<p>made a good criminal living off all<br>\nthe easy prey<\/p>\n<p>until he tried to rob a petite woman<br>\nwho had attained a special skill  <\/p>\n<p>and as he was about to strike her<br>\nshe shot him dead.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>he prowled the city streets hunting for prey he beat his many victims nearly to death he robbed them of their money stole their watches and jewelry made a good criminal living off all the easy prey until he tried to rob a petite woman who had attained a special skill and as he was&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/he-was-like-a-jungle-animal\/\">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\/2724"}],"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=2724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}