{"id":2981,"date":"2025-11-25T15:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/little-marys-witching-eyes\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:56:09","slug":"little-marys-witching-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/little-marys-witching-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Mary\u2019s Witching Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They told Ned not to look into<br>\nlittle Mary\u2019s eyes<\/p>\n<p>she\u2019s got the witching eyes<br>\nthey said<\/p>\n<p>Ned scoffed at such<br>\nsilly superstition about<br>\nan eight-year-old girl<\/p>\n<p>to prove the foolhardy<br>\nbelievers wrong<br>\nNed looked directly<br>\ninto little Mary\u2019s<br>\nwitching eyes<\/p>\n<p>that looked no different<br>\nthan any other<br>\nlittle girl\u2019s eyes<\/p>\n<p>nothing happened<\/p>\n<p>a week passed<br>\nNed still unwitched<br>\nderided the believers<\/p>\n<p>a week later,<br>\nNed was dead<\/p>\n<p>coincidence some said<br>\nproof believers exclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They told Ned not to look into little Mary\u2019s eyes she\u2019s got the witching eyes they said Ned scoffed at such silly superstition about an eight-year-old girl to prove the foolhardy believers wrong Ned looked directly into little Mary\u2019s witching eyes that looked no different than any other little girl\u2019s eyes nothing happened a week&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/little-marys-witching-eyes\/\">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\/2981"}],"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=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}