{"id":2725,"date":"2025-09-27T18:46:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/a-single-woman-who-bought-a-gun\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T18:46:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:46:43","slug":"a-single-woman-who-bought-a-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/a-single-woman-who-bought-a-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"A Single Woman Who Bought a Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She was an attractive, single woman<br>\nwho lived in her house alone.<\/p>\n<p>Crime and break ins had risen<br>\nin her city<\/p>\n<p>that prompted her to buy<br>\na gun for protection. <\/p>\n<p>Her friends, opposed to guns,<br>\nthought she was being paranoid.<\/p>\n<p>One night she heard someone<br>\nbreaking into her house.<\/p>\n<p>She grabbed and loaded her gun<br>\nand yelled I\u2019ve got a gun.<\/p>\n<p>The man trying to break into her<br>\napartment yelled I\u2019ve got one too.<\/p>\n<p>The air exploded with gunfire<br>\nand the smell of gun powder.<\/p>\n<p>When the shots died down,<br>\none of them was dead,<\/p>\n<p>a serial killer who planned on<br>\nraping, torturing and killing her.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She was an attractive, single woman who lived in her house alone. Crime and break ins had risen in her city that prompted her to buy a gun for protection. Her friends, opposed to guns, thought she was being paranoid. One night she heard someone breaking into her house. She grabbed and loaded her gun&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/a-single-woman-who-bought-a-gun\/\">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\/2725"}],"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=2725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}