{"id":5723,"date":"2026-05-20T07:24:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/?p=5723"},"modified":"2026-05-20T07:24:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:24:49","slug":"a-dolls-deadly-curse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/a-dolls-deadly-curse\/","title":{"rendered":"A Doll\u2019s Deadly Curse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He had a girlfriend named Sara<br>\nwho had a weird doll.<br>\nShe held that doll, she called<br>\nClara, as if it were a real child.<br>\nBecause Sara was heartbreakingly hot,<br>\nI tried to overlook her doll obsession.<br>\nBut I must admit the doll creeped me out,<br>\nand it often seemed to look at me,<br>\nwith evil in its plastic eyes.<br>\nFor the two months I was with Sara,<br>\nbad things happened to me.<br>\nI got laid off from my job.<br>\nMy car got stolen, never found.<br>\nI got a wicked case of COVID,<br>\nnearly died from it.<br>\nCrazy as it may seem, I believe<br>\nthat doll was cursing me.<br>\nI think it was because it was jealous<br>\nof the attention Sara was giving me.<br>\nWhen I broke up with Sara, the<br>\nbad luck ended.<br>\nI have no doubt that lifted the doll&#8217;s<br>\ncurse, which I believe would have<br>\nkilled me had I stayed with Sara.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He had a girlfriend named Sara who had a weird doll. She held that doll, she called Clara, as if it were a real child. Because Sara was heartbreakingly hot, I tried to overlook her doll obsession. But I must admit the doll creeped me out, and it often seemed to look at me, with&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/a-dolls-deadly-curse\/\">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\/5723"}],"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=5723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}