{"id":2900,"date":"2025-11-12T20:31:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/sometimes-a-good-woman-is-better-than-a-lawyer\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T20:31:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:31:58","slug":"sometimes-a-good-woman-is-better-than-a-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/sometimes-a-good-woman-is-better-than-a-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes a Good Woman Is Better Than a Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a YouTube video about Newcastle, England<br>\na young man is arguing with the police in the streets<\/p>\n<p>I can see he\u2019s close to getting arrested and thrown in jail<br>\nfor his arguing and hassling the police<\/p>\n<p>a pretty young woman<br>\npresumably his girlfriend<\/p>\n<p>puts her hands gently on his shoulders<br>\nand softly implores him to cease<\/p>\n<p>his foolish, stubborn behavior<br>\nher touch, her words, like a bomb diffuser<\/p>\n<p>he settles down, mellows out a bit<br>\nstops arguing with the police<\/p>\n<p>as if he got a reprieve<br>\nhe\u2019s able to work away without being arrested<\/p>\n<p>thanks to his loving, caring girlfriend\u2019s intersession<br>\nsometimes a good woman is better than a lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a YouTube video about Newcastle, England a young man is arguing with the police in the streets I can see he\u2019s close to getting arrested and thrown in jail for his arguing and hassling the police a pretty young woman presumably his girlfriend puts her hands gently on his shoulders and softly implores him&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/sometimes-a-good-woman-is-better-than-a-lawyer\/\">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\/2900"}],"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=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}