{"id":2978,"date":"2025-11-25T10:28:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/rolling-back-time-bad-and-good\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T10:28:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:28:55","slug":"rolling-back-time-bad-and-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/rolling-back-time-bad-and-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Back Time, Bad and Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you roll back time far enough<br>\npeople were either bad or good<br>\nthere were no in betweens<br>\nbad and good were simple matters<br>\nno complications<br>\nbut as the world grew up<br>\nbad and good became less simple<br>\nthe shaping of people\u2019s characters<br>\nbad and good, complicated<br>\nnature and nurture<br>\nextenuating circumstances<br>\ncame into play<br>\nthank God for that day.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you roll back time far enough people were either bad or good there were no in betweens bad and good were simple matters no complications but as the world grew up bad and good became less simple the shaping of people\u2019s characters bad and good, complicated nature and nurture extenuating circumstances came into play&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/rolling-back-time-bad-and-good\/\">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\/2978"}],"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=2978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}