{"id":5568,"date":"2026-05-09T05:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/?p=5568"},"modified":"2026-05-09T05:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:12:11","slug":"she-told-him-she-was-a-moon-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/she-told-him-she-was-a-moon-child\/","title":{"rendered":"She Told Him She Was a Moon Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When he met her at a high school dance,<br>\nhe fell in love with her immediately.<\/p>\n<p>She had an ethereal beauty unlike any<br>\nother beautiful girl he&#8217;d ever seen. <\/p>\n<p>After a dance, they went outside, and<br>\nshe said see the full moon?<\/p>\n<p>That is my home, and one day I\u2019ll<br>\nbe going back there.<\/p>\n<p>He thought she was kidding and<br>\ndidn\u2019t pay attention to her joke.<\/p>\n<p>But the next full moon when they<br>\nwere walking alone in a park,<\/p>\n<p>She said look my home, the full<br>\nmoon, and she vanished.<\/p>\n<p>And he swore for a moment he saw<br>\nher face replace the man in the moon.<\/p>\n<p>He never saw her again after that,<br>\nand nobody in his city, <\/p>\n<p>not even the police, knew anything about<br>\nwho she was or where she came from.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When he met her at a high school dance, he fell in love with her immediately. She had an ethereal beauty unlike any other beautiful girl he&#8217;d ever seen. After a dance, they went outside, and she said see the full moon? That is my home, and one day I\u2019ll be going back there. He&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/she-told-him-she-was-a-moon-child\/\">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\/5568"}],"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=5568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}