{"id":5719,"date":"2026-05-20T06:33:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/?p=5719"},"modified":"2026-05-20T06:33:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:33:55","slug":"an-old-womans-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/an-old-womans-isolation\/","title":{"rendered":"An Old Woman\u2019s Isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She\u2019s an old woman now,<br>\nher life is ebbing out of her.<\/p>\n<p>Those friends of her youth,<br>\nall dead or gone.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s all alone in the world;<br>\nno one cares about her.<\/p>\n<p>She spends her days in solitude,<br>\nwith no desire to go anywhere;<\/p>\n<p>nowhere holds any appeal, and<br>\nshe cries her waning days away.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She\u2019s an old woman now, her life is ebbing out of her. Those friends of her youth, all dead or gone. She\u2019s all alone in the world; no one cares about her. She spends her days in solitude, with no desire to go anywhere; nowhere holds any appeal, and she cries her waning days away.&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/an-old-womans-isolation\/\">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\/5719"}],"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=5719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}