{"id":2756,"date":"2025-10-06T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/he-used-to-like-to-fish\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:04:00","slug":"he-used-to-like-to-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/he-used-to-like-to-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"He Used to Like to Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He used to like to fish<br>\ndays and nights,<br>\nall the time.<\/p>\n<p>To him it was a sport.<br>\nHe didn\u2019t catch fish to eat.<\/p>\n<p>He caught all kinds of fish,<br>\nbass, trout, catfish, perch,<br>\nsunfish and more.<\/p>\n<p>Once he even caught a tiny squid.<\/p>\n<p>Once he could have caught<br>\na crab; it hung on to the bait<br>\nand finally dropped off.<\/p>\n<p>But there came a time in<br>\nhis twenties when he could<br>\nno longer fish; he could no<br>\ncatch, harm, or kill fish<br>\nfor fun.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t know why that<br>\nchange in him occurred,<br>\nan awakening<br>\nhe hadn\u2019t expected.<\/p>\n<p>A blessing for the fish.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He used to like to fish days and nights, all the time. To him it was a sport. He didn\u2019t catch fish to eat. He caught all kinds of fish, bass, trout, catfish, perch, sunfish and more. Once he even caught a tiny squid. Once he could have caught a crab; it hung on to&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/he-used-to-like-to-fish\/\">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\/2756"}],"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=2756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}