{"id":2979,"date":"2025-11-25T10:48:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/the-wreckage-of-aging\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T10:48:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:48:36","slug":"the-wreckage-of-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/2025\/11\/25\/the-wreckage-of-aging\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wreckage of Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Healthy all your life<\/p>\n<p>until<\/p>\n<p>you grow older<br \/>\nand might become<\/p>\n<p>one of those in need of<br \/>\nin home assistance<br \/>\non a walker<br \/>\nin a wheelchair<br \/>\nor<\/p>\n<p>the absolute worst<br \/>\nin a nursing home<br \/>\nwith you death<br \/>\nimpending<\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<p>your mind gone<br \/>\nyour awareness<br \/>\nbarely operative<\/p>\n<p>you become like<br \/>\na zombie when<br \/>\nyou mindlessly<br \/>\nwander<br \/>\nif you have a<br \/>\nspouse,<br \/>\nyou no longer<br \/>\nknow her<\/p>\n<p>your mind has<br \/>\nsaid goodbye<br \/>\nto her<br \/>\nand what<br \/>\nwas left of<br \/>\nyour obliterated<br \/>\nexistence<\/p>\n<p>I ask you<br \/>\nis it fair that<br \/>\nfor many<br \/>\nlife ends<br \/>\nlike that?<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthy all your life until you grow older and might become one of those in need of in home assistance on a walker in a wheelchair or the absolute worst in a nursing home with you death impending or your mind gone your awareness barely operative you become like a zombie when you mindlessly wander&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/2025\/11\/25\/the-wreckage-of-aging\/\">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-2979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979","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=2979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}