{"id":2977,"date":"2025-11-24T16:45:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/the-breaking-of-hells-gates\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T16:45:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:45:45","slug":"the-breaking-of-hells-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-breaking-of-hells-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"The Breaking of Hell\u2019s Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Breaking of Hell\u2019s Gates is a Taoist ritual<br>\nto release dead souls from hell.<\/p>\n<p>Damn, and hell\u2019s bells, a lot of people could probably use a get<br>\nout of hell break like that; many will be there, some believe.<\/p>\n<p>And many based on their hellbent behaviors and nefarious actions<br>\nsurely could qualify for one way tickets there. <\/p>\n<p>But I digress, back to the pertinent topic:<\/p>\n<p>Taoist priests perform a ceremony summoning powerful<br>\nTaoist deities, chant scriptures<\/p>\n<p>and burn offerings to rescue souls from eternal damnation<br>\nand the torments of a hell. <\/p>\n<p>Talismans are included as well and appear to be potent<br>\nfor opening the gates of hell.<\/p>\n<p>Now maybe some could say this is just superstitious nonsense<br>\nbut maybe in the Taoist afterlife it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, I like the title <em>The Breaking of the Gates of Hell<\/em>,<br>\nand I like that those in a hell could get a second chance<\/p>\n<p>were not tormented, tortured and damned forever<br>\nthanks to the compassion and power of Taoist priests.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Breaking of Hell\u2019s Gates is a Taoist ritual to release dead souls from hell. Damn, and hell\u2019s bells, a lot of people could probably use a get out of hell break like that; many will be there, some believe. And many based on their hellbent behaviors and nefarious actions surely could qualify for one&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-breaking-of-hells-gates\/\">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\/2977"}],"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=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}