{"id":5612,"date":"2026-05-12T06:26:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/?p=5612"},"modified":"2026-05-12T06:26:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:26:01","slug":"you-cannot-kill-the-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/you-cannot-kill-the-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"You Cannot Kill the Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can kill the body<br>\nbut you cannot kill the soul<\/p>\n<p>when a person is murdered<br>\nI like to think that person<br>\nparticularly a woman<br>\nmurdered  by a serial killer<br>\nor a deranged evil lover<\/p>\n<p>goes to a place in the afterlife<br>\nwhere the way she went out<br>\nisn\u2019t even a memory<br>\ndoesn\u2019t have any trauma<br>\nor lasting emotional scars<\/p>\n<p>a place where none of<br>\nthe evil things that happen<br>\nall over the world<br>\nare obliterated forever<br>\nin the peace love<br>\nand bliss of the afterlife.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can kill the body but you cannot kill the soul when a person is murdered I like to think that person particularly a woman murdered by a serial killer or a deranged evil lover goes to a place in the afterlife where the way she went out isn\u2019t even a memory doesn\u2019t have any&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/you-cannot-kill-the-soul\/\">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\/5612"}],"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=5612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}