{"id":2738,"date":"2025-10-01T09:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/when-i-knew-less-about-romantic-matters\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T09:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:02:06","slug":"when-i-knew-less-about-romantic-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/when-i-knew-less-about-romantic-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"When I Knew Less About Romantic Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do arguments have to<br>\ninterfere with true love?<br>\nWhy do tensions have<br>\nto come with the bliss?<br>\nWhen I was a teenager<br>\nand knew less about<br>\nromantic matters,<br>\nI felt true love<br>\nwould be hassle free.<br>\nI never imagined<br>\nsometimes it would<br>\ninvolve these contrary<br>\nemotions.<br>\nI never imagined<br>\nsometimes true love<br>\nwould be untrue.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do arguments have to interfere with true love? Why do tensions have to come with the bliss? When I was a teenager and knew less about romantic matters, I felt true love would be hassle free. I never imagined sometimes it would involve these contrary emotions. I never imagined sometimes true love would be&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/when-i-knew-less-about-romantic-matters\/\">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\/2738"}],"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=2738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}