{"id":5615,"date":"2026-05-13T06:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/?p=5615"},"modified":"2026-05-13T06:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:46:22","slug":"a-sixties-encounter-with-a-flower-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/a-sixties-encounter-with-a-flower-child\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sixties Encounter with a Flower Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I only knew her for an evening<br>\non a wasted weekend night<br>\na quintessential flower child<\/p>\n<p>she was high on something<br>\ni was drunk as hell<\/p>\n<p>i made a date with her<br>\nfor the next day<br>\nin a park not faraway<\/p>\n<p>i was there that day<br>\nshe was not<\/p>\n<p>looking back decades later<br>\ni\u2019ve got a feeling<br>\nit was better that way<\/p>\n<p>and she may not even<br>\nbe alive today.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I only knew her for an evening on a wasted weekend night a quintessential flower child she was high on something i was drunk as hell i made a date with her for the next day in a park not faraway i was there that day she was not looking back decades later i\u2019ve got&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/a-sixties-encounter-with-a-flower-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\/5615"}],"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=5615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}