{"id":5674,"date":"2026-05-17T05:47:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/?p=5674"},"modified":"2026-05-17T05:47:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:47:22","slug":"an-ordinary-day-on-chestnut-street-and-a-perpendicular-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/an-ordinary-day-on-chestnut-street-and-a-perpendicular-person\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ordinary Day on Chestnut Street and a Perpendicular Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On an ordinary day on Chestnut street,<br>\nhe saw a perpendicular person,<br>\ntranslucent and glittering,<br>\non the other side of the street.<\/p>\n<p>He looked away, frightened by the<br>\nbizarre and scary sight, hoping<br>\nit wouldn\u2019t come after him on<br>\nthat ordinary day.<\/p>\n<p>He caught some luck when he<br>\ntook another peek at the<br>\nperpendicular, translucent and<br>\nglittering person.<\/p>\n<p>That unexplainable and weird<br>\nbeing had vanished, and he<br>\nwondered if it was time to<br>\nchange his meds.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On an ordinary day on Chestnut street, he saw a perpendicular person, translucent and glittering, on the other side of the street. He looked away, frightened by the bizarre and scary sight, hoping it wouldn\u2019t come after him on that ordinary day. He caught some luck when he took another peek at the perpendicular, translucent&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/an-ordinary-day-on-chestnut-street-and-a-perpendicular-person\/\">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\/5674"}],"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=5674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}