{"id":2757,"date":"2025-10-06T14:41:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/far-too-young-to-die\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T14:41:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:41:31","slug":"far-too-young-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/far-too-young-to-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Far too Young to Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His body began breaking down<br>\nin his early thirties.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d been strong and fit, and<br>\ncouldn\u2019t figure out why.<\/p>\n<p>He went to see a doctor<br>\nand was put in a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He was probed, examined,<br>\nhis blood taken.<\/p>\n<p>Worst diagnosis possible,<br>\ncancer at age 31.<\/p>\n<p>A year later, dead at the<br>\nyoung age of 32.<\/p>\n<p>Why do such awful things<br>\nhave to happen<\/p>\n<p>to some young people<br>\nGod, I\u2019m asking you?<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His body began breaking down in his early thirties. He\u2019d been strong and fit, and couldn\u2019t figure out why. He went to see a doctor and was put in a hospital. He was probed, examined, his blood taken. Worst diagnosis possible, cancer at age 31. A year later, dead at the young age of 32.&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/far-too-young-to-die\/\">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\/2757"}],"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=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}