{"id":5553,"date":"2026-05-08T02:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/?p=5553"},"modified":"2026-05-08T02:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:57:20","slug":"taming-wild-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/taming-wild-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Taming Wild Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine if you could tame wild animals;<br>\nfor example a king of the jungle lion.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the glorious feeling you\u2019d have<br>\nas the lion approached you like a friend<\/p>\n<p>without any roars, without any intents<br>\nto rip you apart. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve seen people who appear to have<br>\nattained that with lions,<\/p>\n<p>but were that me, I\u2019d aways worry that<br>\nthe wildness in the lion could <\/p>\n<p>come out one day, and I\u2019d be unmercifully<br>\nripped apart.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine if you could tame wild animals; for example a king of the jungle lion. Imagine the glorious feeling you\u2019d have as the lion approached you like a friend without any roars, without any intents to rip you apart. I\u2019ve seen people who appear to have attained that with lions, but were that me, I\u2019d&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/taming-wild-animals\/\">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\/5553"}],"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=5553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}