{"id":2728,"date":"2025-09-28T10:35:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T10:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/why\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T10:35:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T10:35:38","slug":"why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/why\/","title":{"rendered":"Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do some have to come<br>\ninto this life disabled<\/p>\n<p>when others come into it<br>\nwith perfect health?<\/p>\n<p>Why are some fated from birth<br>\nto suffer a mental health crisis<\/p>\n<p>later in their lives, say in their<br>\nearly twenties,<\/p>\n<p>at a time just when their lives<br>\nare really just beginning?<\/p>\n<p>Why are some innocent babies<br>\nborn with cancer<\/p>\n<p>when other babies are<br>\nborn with perfect health?<\/p>\n<p>I cannot fathom the whys<br>\nof these terrible misfortunes.<\/p>\n<p>I only know my heart aches<br>\nat the mere thought of them.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do some have to come into this life disabled when others come into it with perfect health? Why are some fated from birth to suffer a mental health crisis later in their lives, say in their early twenties, at a time just when their lives are really just beginning? Why are some innocent babies&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/why\/\">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\/2728"}],"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=2728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}