{"id":5696,"date":"2026-05-18T23:50:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/?p=5696"},"modified":"2026-05-18T23:50:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:50:43","slug":"living-in-a-paradise-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/living-in-a-paradise-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in a Paradise on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, she brought joy to his heart.<br>\nHe couldn\u2019t stop thinking about her.<br>\nHer smile lit up his entire life.<br>\nSpending time with her was like<br>\nliving in a paradise on earth.<br>\nEventually, they married,<br>\nand they were such a happy couple.<br>\nThen she got a job where she<br>\nmet many new female friends.<br>\nNot long after that, she began<br>\nspending more time with her<br>\nnew friends than with him.<br>\nAnd his life became like a<br>\ncountry western song,<br>\n\u201cIsn\u2019t It Lonely Together.\u201d<br>\nDespite many arguments,<br>\nshe never changed her ways,<br>\nuntil he had to escape the<br>\ngnawing loneliness.<br>\nHe left the paradise on earth<br>\nthat became a paradise lost.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, she brought joy to his heart. He couldn\u2019t stop thinking about her. Her smile lit up his entire life. Spending time with her was like living in a paradise on earth. Eventually, they married, and they were such a happy couple. Then she got a job where she met many new female friends. Not&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/living-in-a-paradise-on-earth\/\">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\/5696"}],"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=5696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}