{"id":2754,"date":"2025-10-05T16:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/when-the-news-gets-too-toxic\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T16:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T16:00:02","slug":"when-the-news-gets-too-toxic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/when-the-news-gets-too-toxic\/","title":{"rendered":"When the News Gets Too Toxic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I find the news gets too toxic,<br>\nlike eating too much unhealthy food.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes after months and months<br>\nof consuming it, my mind gets <\/p>\n<p>a little too filled with it, like a stomach<br>\nache from eating too much food.<\/p>\n<p>At that point, I have to pull back from<br>\nthe tableau of negative news<\/p>\n<p>and take a self prescribed news fast<br>\nto purge the toxicity out of my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I find the news gets too toxic, like eating too much unhealthy food. Sometimes after months and months of consuming it, my mind gets a little too filled with it, like a stomach ache from eating too much food. At that point, I have to pull back from the tableau of negative news and&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/when-the-news-gets-too-toxic\/\">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\/2754"}],"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=2754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}