{"id":2766,"date":"2025-10-09T18:24:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T18:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/like-an-old-reclusive-monk\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T18:24:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T18:24:29","slug":"like-an-old-reclusive-monk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/like-an-old-reclusive-monk\/","title":{"rendered":"Like an Old Reclusive Monk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No woman in my life<br>\nWithdrawn from humankind<br>\nSpiritual energy streaming up in me<br>\nnonstop permanently<br>\nlike a Hindu monk charged up with shakti<br>\nevery day and every night<br>\nlike a recluse basking in spirituality<br>\nwaiting for the final release<br>\nhoping for the maha samadhi<br>\nthe world no longer owns me<br>\nI yearn for the higher life<br>\nthe sat chit ananda<br>\nthe real home of this aging soul<br>\nunconditional love, eternal bliss<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No woman in my life Withdrawn from humankind Spiritual energy streaming up in me nonstop permanently like a Hindu monk charged up with shakti every day and every night like a recluse basking in spirituality waiting for the final release hoping for the maha samadhi the world no longer owns me I yearn for the&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/like-an-old-reclusive-monk\/\">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\/2766"}],"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=2766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}