{"id":2945,"date":"2025-11-20T20:48:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/deceased-ex-wife-in-a-dream\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:48:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:48:40","slug":"deceased-ex-wife-in-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/2025\/11\/20\/deceased-ex-wife-in-a-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Deceased Ex-Wife in a Dream?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a dream last night<br \/>\nI\u2019m lying in bed<br \/>\nholding a woman<br \/>\nbut when I held her<br \/>\nher body felt more<br \/>\nwonderful to hold<br \/>\nthan any other<br \/>\nwoman\u2019s body<br \/>\nI was ever blessed<br \/>\nto have held<\/p>\n<p>we cuddled<br \/>\nwe kissed<br \/>\nI fell hopelessly<br \/>\nin love<\/p>\n<p>I had a vague<br \/>\nfeeling she might<br \/>\nhave been an ex wife<br \/>\nlong deceased<\/p>\n<p>that I left because<br \/>\nshe was always<br \/>\nout<br \/>\nI was always<br \/>\nalone<br \/>\nher the extrovert<br \/>\nme the introvert<\/p>\n<p>and I\u2019m not one<br \/>\nto go back with<br \/>\nsomeone that a<br \/>\nromance didn\u2019t<br \/>\nwork out with<\/p>\n<p>I awoke in the<br \/>\nsobering morning<br \/>\nlight, sort of<br \/>\nrelieved that I<br \/>\nhadn&#8217;t falling<br \/>\nin love with her<br \/>\nbut wondering<br \/>\nif I had been with<br \/>\nher ghost or spirit<\/p>\n<p>whatever the case<br \/>\nat least it was a<br \/>\npleasant experience<br \/>\nas opposed to an<br \/>\navenging ex\u2019s spirit<br \/>\nharassing me.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a dream last night I\u2019m lying in bed holding a woman but when I held her her body felt more wonderful to hold than any other woman\u2019s body I was ever blessed to have held we cuddled we kissed I fell hopelessly in love I had a vague feeling she might have been an&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/2025\/11\/20\/deceased-ex-wife-in-a-dream\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}