{"id":5585,"date":"2026-05-11T22:20:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/?p=5585"},"modified":"2026-05-11T22:20:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:20:39","slug":"in-some-ways-its-better-to-be-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/in-some-ways-its-better-to-be-free\/","title":{"rendered":"In Some Ways It\u2019s Better to be Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sure it\u2019s nice to have someone,<br>\nbut, alas, in this world it won\u2019t last.<br>\nIf you don\u2019t break up, death will<br>\neventually break you up.<br>\nOne way or the other heartaches<br>\nwill ensue.<br>\nIn some ways it\u2019s better to have<br>\nno one.<br>\nIn some ways it\u2019s better to be free.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure it\u2019s nice to have someone, but, alas, in this world it won\u2019t last. If you don\u2019t break up, death will eventually break you up. One way or the other heartaches will ensue. In some ways it\u2019s better to have no one. In some ways it\u2019s better to be free. Bob Boyd<\/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\/5585"}],"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=5585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}