{"id":2736,"date":"2025-09-30T17:25:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/the-man-who-looked-like-santa-claus\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T17:25:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:25:34","slug":"the-man-who-looked-like-santa-claus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-man-who-looked-like-santa-claus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Looked Like Santa Claus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walking down Elm Street, Greensboro<br>\nmany years ago<\/p>\n<p>I spotted a man who looked like Santa Claus<br>\nstanding behind a stand<\/p>\n<p>I cannot remember his name<\/p>\n<p>I only remember he stood out<\/p>\n<p>Instead of giving Christmas Gifts<br>\nto passers by<\/p>\n<p>He was a poet offering his finely crafted poems<br>\nto the world  <\/p>\n<p>as good as getting longed for Christmans gifts<br>\non Christmas morn.<\/p>\n<p> Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking down Elm Street, Greensboro many years ago I spotted a man who looked like Santa Claus standing behind a stand I cannot remember his name I only remember he stood out Instead of giving Christmas Gifts to passers by He was a poet offering his finely crafted poems to the world as good as&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-man-who-looked-like-santa-claus\/\">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\/2736"}],"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=2736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}