{"id":2770,"date":"2025-10-11T10:49:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/grasshoppers-and-lost-childhood-memories\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T10:49:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:49:38","slug":"grasshoppers-and-lost-childhood-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/grasshoppers-and-lost-childhood-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Grasshoppers and Lost Childhood Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a child<br>\nmaybe under age ten<\/p>\n<p>grasshoppers were a phenom<br>\nthe way they could jump<\/p>\n<p>the way some of them<br>\ncould fly a bit<\/p>\n<p>I cannot remember the<br>\nfirst time I saw one<\/p>\n<p>I kind of wish I could<br>\nretrieve that wonder<\/p>\n<p>recapture that amazement<br>\nremember that joy<\/p>\n<p>but I\u2019m an old man now<br>\nand such memories are gone<\/p>\n<p>amazing childhood moments<br>\nI cannot relive.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a child maybe under age ten grasshoppers were a phenom the way they could jump the way some of them could fly a bit I cannot remember the first time I saw one I kind of wish I could retrieve that wonder recapture that amazement remember that joy but I\u2019m an old&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/grasshoppers-and-lost-childhood-memories\/\">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\/2770"}],"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=2770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}