{"id":2894,"date":"2025-11-12T10:39:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/lost-soul-on-the-streets-of-newcastle-england\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T10:39:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:39:54","slug":"lost-soul-on-the-streets-of-newcastle-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/lost-soul-on-the-streets-of-newcastle-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Soul on the Streets of Newcastle, England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crowds of people  in Newcastle, England<br>\nroaming the streets tonight<\/p>\n<p>some are lovely young women dressed alluringly<br>\nsome are young men looking to meet them <\/p>\n<p>one man is like a zombie, barely conscious, standing<br>\non a sidewalk weaving like a reed in a gentle wind<\/p>\n<p>he\u2019s completely drugged out, reminds me of the people<br>\non the streets of Kensington, Avenue, PA<\/p>\n<p>a lost soul drowning in the sea of Newcastle people<br>\nthe police approach him presumably to help him<\/p>\n<p>hopefully in a hospital, not in a prison cell<br>\nwhich might be a chance to save this terribly lost soul.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowds of people in Newcastle, England roaming the streets tonight some are lovely young women dressed alluringly some are young men looking to meet them one man is like a zombie, barely conscious, standing on a sidewalk weaving like a reed in a gentle wind he\u2019s completely drugged out, reminds me of the people on&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/lost-soul-on-the-streets-of-newcastle-england\/\">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\/2894"}],"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=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}