{"id":2902,"date":"2025-11-13T10:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/18299-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:34:11","slug":"18299-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/18299-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Haunted Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many YouTube videos about haunted churches<br>\nI never imagined houses of God could become haunted<\/p>\n<p>but given many churches have graveyards attached<br>\nto them for the departed faithful<\/p>\n<p>maybe the dead in those graves rise from the dead<br>\nto once again attend church services<\/p>\n<p>maybe the worship, the preaching, and the choir<br>\nwere all so holy and so good, they could raise the dead <\/p>\n<p>or maybe when dead some of the disembodied became directionless and couldn\u2019t find their way to heaven<\/p>\n<p>so they compromised, best they could do, and<br>\nin spirit hung out in their former churches<\/p>\n<p>but between me and you, or you and I, I find even the<br>\nthought of ghosts in churches more than a bit spooky.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many YouTube videos about haunted churches I never imagined houses of God could become haunted but given many churches have graveyards attached to them for the departed faithful maybe the dead in those graves rise from the dead to once again attend church services maybe the worship, the preaching, and the choir were&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/18299-2\/\">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\/2902"}],"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=2902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}