{"id":2726,"date":"2025-09-27T19:21:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T19:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/healthy-as-a-horse-from-working-out\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T19:21:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T19:21:25","slug":"healthy-as-a-horse-from-working-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/healthy-as-a-horse-from-working-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthy as a Horse From Working Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He worked out all his life, healthy as a horse,<br>\nstrong as a bull.<\/p>\n<p>Super fit, the fittest of all his peers. <\/p>\n<p>Disease free in his fifties from the right diet<br>\nand working out daily in the gym.<\/p>\n<p>Still healthy as a horse, strong as a bull, people<br>\nmarveled at how good he looked.  <\/p>\n<p>Cancer in his late fifties, dead at age sixty<\/p>\n<p>despite his superior fitness and the healthy diet<br>\nhe scrupulously maintained. <\/p>\n<p>His doctor said, \u201cSometimes you can do everything right<br>\nand still get sick.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you can do everything wrong<br>\nand never get sick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He worked out all his life, healthy as a horse, strong as a bull. Super fit, the fittest of all his peers. Disease free in his fifties from the right diet and working out daily in the gym. Still healthy as a horse, strong as a bull, people marveled at how good he looked. Cancer&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/healthy-as-a-horse-from-working-out\/\">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\/2726"}],"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=2726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}