{"id":2965,"date":"2025-11-23T13:17:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/where-have-they-all-gone\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T13:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:17:15","slug":"where-have-they-all-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/where-have-they-all-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Have They All Gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you grow older<\/p>\n<p>real older<\/p>\n<p>you look around and many friends of<br>\nyesteryear and this year are dead<\/p>\n<p>many generational icons are gone as well<\/p>\n<p>if you live long enough, more of them are<br>\non the other side, the deceased side, of life<\/p>\n<p>few, like you, are left on the living side of life<br>\nfor some, this generational shift from the living<\/p>\n<p>to the dead<br>\nis extremely depressing<\/p>\n<p>the world, the people they knew<br>\ngone forever<\/p>\n<p>to where<br>\nno one really knows<\/p>\n<p>despite the many who claim they<br>\nknow who haven\u2019t been dead<\/p>\n<p>maybe those who\u2019ve had<br>\nnear death experiences, NDEers, know<\/p>\n<p>seemingly having been dead temporarily<\/p>\n<p>but many scientists disagree<br>\nand their scientific reasons have merit<\/p>\n<p>and temporarily being dead isn\u2019t<br>\nreally dead, not having gone all the way<\/p>\n<p>as for me, I think the NDEers have gotten a real peek<br>\nat where the dead friends and generational icons<\/p>\n<p>have all gone.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you grow older real older you look around and many friends of yesteryear and this year are dead many generational icons are gone as well if you live long enough, more of them are on the other side, the deceased side, of life few, like you, are left on the living side of life&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/where-have-they-all-gone\/\">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\/2965"}],"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=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}