{"id":5503,"date":"2026-05-05T06:51:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/?p=5503"},"modified":"2026-05-05T06:51:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:51:45","slug":"150000-people-dying-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/2026\/05\/05\/150000-people-dying-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"150,000 People Dying Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All over the world people are<br \/>\ndying everyday, about 150,000 daily.<\/p>\n<p>It may be hard to imagine<br \/>\nthat one day you will die too.<\/p>\n<p>More likely, you don\u2019t want to<br \/>\nimagine the death that awaits you.<\/p>\n<p>I can completely understand that;<br \/>\nI used to be that way too,<\/p>\n<p>until I got old and now I have a<br \/>\ndifferent view, being nearer to dying.<\/p>\n<p>Now I look forward to the cessation<br \/>\nof the me in this life and feel<\/p>\n<p>at that moment I\u2019ll be homeward bound<br \/>\nto a better life,<\/p>\n<p>as I believe you will too.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All over the world people are dying everyday, about 150,000 daily. It may be hard to imagine that one day you will die too. More likely, you don\u2019t want to imagine the death that awaits you. I can completely understand that; I used to be that way too, until I got old and now I&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/2026\/05\/05\/150000-people-dying-daily\/\">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-5503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503","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=5503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}