{"id":5676,"date":"2026-05-17T06:06:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/?p=5676"},"modified":"2026-05-17T06:06:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:06:56","slug":"young-love-gone-terribly-awry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/young-love-gone-terribly-awry\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Love Gone Terribly Awry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was just a teenage kid.<br>\nShe was his first girlfriend.<br>\nInitially, everything was more<br>\nthan wonderful.<br>\nHe\u2019d found the love of his life.<br>\nHe\u2019d found a happiness<br>\nbeyond what he thought possible.<br>\nHe loved her so much he said<br>\nhe\u2019d die a hundred times for her.<br>\nHe asked her to marry him<br>\nwhen they got older.<br>\nShe happily agreed and gave<br>\nhim a long, meaningful kiss.<br>\nA year later, his future wife<br>\ncheated on him, destroying<br>\ntheir true teenage love.<br>\nUnable to live without the<br>\ngirl he pledged his forever<br>\nlove to, whom he vowed to<br>\nmarry, he put his father\u2019s<br>\npistol to his head and<br>\npulled the trigger, dead forever,<br>\non the night his ex-girlfriend had<br>\nchanged her mind and decided<br>\nto call him the next day, unaware<br>\nthat it was too late \u2026 too late,<br>\nhis death, her fate.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was just a teenage kid. She was his first girlfriend. Initially, everything was more than wonderful. He\u2019d found the love of his life. He\u2019d found a happiness beyond what he thought possible. He loved her so much he said he\u2019d die a hundred times for her. He asked her to marry him when they&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/young-love-gone-terribly-awry\/\">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\/5676"}],"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=5676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}