{"id":2745,"date":"2025-10-03T18:21:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T18:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/woman-with-no-arms\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T18:21:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T18:21:26","slug":"woman-with-no-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/woman-with-no-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman with No Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw a woman in a YouTube video today<br>\nwho had no arms.<br>\nI wonder why life has to be like this.<br>\nWhy some have to suffer such fates.<br>\nWhy others have easier lives<br>\nDevoid of the afflictions of many.<br>\nSome say it\u2019s just Karma,<br>\nAs if it\u2019s of little importance.<br>\nI don\u2019t believe it\u2019s Karma.<br>\nRight or wrong, I think<br>\nIt\u2019s all just random.<br>\nBut I find it heartbreaking<br>\nThat so many people have<br>\nSuch horrible things happening to them<br>\nIn this tenuous, impermanent life.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw a woman in a YouTube video today who had no arms. I wonder why life has to be like this. Why some have to suffer such fates. Why others have easier lives Devoid of the afflictions of many. Some say it\u2019s just Karma, As if it\u2019s of little importance. I don\u2019t believe it\u2019s Karma.&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/woman-with-no-arms\/\">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\/2745"}],"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=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}