{"id":5444,"date":"2026-05-02T08:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/?p=5444"},"modified":"2026-05-02T08:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:59:18","slug":"she-was-taking-eighteen-pills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/she-was-taking-eighteen-pills\/","title":{"rendered":"She Was Taking Eighteen Pills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She was taking eighteen pills<br>\nfor a myriad of medical conditions.<\/p>\n<p>One could wonder if living is worth<br>\nhaving to take eighteen pills to stay alive.<\/p>\n<p>I think to myself I\u2019d rather die than<br>\ntake a mini pharmacy to remain living.<\/p>\n<p>But probably I\u2019d be just like her<br>\nand take those eighteen pills,<\/p>\n<p>at the least, to lessen any suffering<br>\nbefore I died.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She was taking eighteen pills for a myriad of medical conditions. One could wonder if living is worth having to take eighteen pills to stay alive. I think to myself I\u2019d rather die than take a mini pharmacy to remain living. But probably I\u2019d be just like her and take those eighteen pills, at the&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/she-was-taking-eighteen-pills\/\">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\/5444"}],"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=5444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}