{"id":2775,"date":"2025-10-12T15:26:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/tavern-people-in-dracula-movie-crossing-themselves\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T15:26:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:26:52","slug":"tavern-people-in-dracula-movie-crossing-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/tavern-people-in-dracula-movie-crossing-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Tavern People in Dracula Movie Crossing Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The solicitor stops at a village near Count Dracula\u2019s liar.<br>\nThe villagers cross themselves at the mention of Dracula.<br>\nThey warn him of the horrors at the castle.<br>\nHe blows their warnings off as foolish superstition.<br>\nAnd you know, it\u2019s to his coming peril.<br>\nA wise man would have dialogued with the villagers,<br>\ninvestigated their claims of werewolves and vampires.<br>\nHeeded their well meaning warnings.<br>\nFelt the portents in their words.<br>\nSensed the horrors at the castle.<br>\nPulse and heart beat quickening,<br>\nhe would have prudently turned back<br>\nand saved himself and his mortal soul<br>\nfrom the terrors that awaited him that dark day.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The solicitor stops at a village near Count Dracula\u2019s liar. The villagers cross themselves at the mention of Dracula. They warn him of the horrors at the castle. He blows their warnings off as foolish superstition. And you know, it\u2019s to his coming peril. A wise man would have dialogued with the villagers, investigated their&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/tavern-people-in-dracula-movie-crossing-themselves\/\">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\/2775"}],"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=2775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}