{"id":3000,"date":"2025-11-28T23:02:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T23:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/the-vanishing-fairy-swan\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T23:02:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T23:02:27","slug":"the-vanishing-fairy-swan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-vanishing-fairy-swan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vanishing Fairy Swan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walking along a solitary path<br>\nin a quiet woods<\/p>\n<p>to walk off the depression<br>\nfrom the loss of a love<\/p>\n<p>I spied a fairy-like woman<br>\nwalking toward me<\/p>\n<p>intending not to scare her<br>\nI didn\u2019t walk close to her<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t looked away from her<br>\nnor breathed a word<\/p>\n<p>but she said, \u201cHey, you!\u201d<br>\nand when I looked at her<\/p>\n<p>her eyes met mine<br>\nimbued me with bliss<\/p>\n<p>then she turned into a swan<br>\nand flew into<\/p>\n<p>a sky that turned iridescent<br>\nfor a minute <\/p>\n<p>as the fairy turned swan<br>\ndisappeared in it<\/p>\n<p>my mind was totally blown<br>\nmy depression completely gone.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking along a solitary path in a quiet woods to walk off the depression from the loss of a love I spied a fairy-like woman walking toward me intending not to scare her I didn\u2019t walk close to her I didn\u2019t looked away from her nor breathed a word but she said, \u201cHey, you!\u201d and&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-vanishing-fairy-swan\/\">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\/3000"}],"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=3000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}