{"id":5530,"date":"2026-05-06T05:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/?p=5530"},"modified":"2026-05-06T05:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:19:14","slug":"his-sole-ambition-in-life-was-to-be-a-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/2026\/05\/06\/his-sole-ambition-in-life-was-to-be-a-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"His Sole Ambition in Life Was to Be a Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He never<br \/>\nwent to college<\/p>\n<p>he never had<br \/>\na career<\/p>\n<p>he worked only<br \/>\nodd jobs<\/p>\n<p>to some he looked<br \/>\nlike a failure<\/p>\n<p>but he was a<br \/>\ngreat poet<\/p>\n<p>true to his craft.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He never went to college he never had a career he worked only odd jobs to some he looked like a failure but he was a great poet true to his craft. Bob Boyd<\/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-5530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530","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=5530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}