{"id":5815,"date":"2026-05-23T12:22:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/?p=5815"},"modified":"2026-05-23T12:22:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:22:44","slug":"meeting-an-ex-girlfriend-40-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/meeting-an-ex-girlfriend-40-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting an Ex-Girlfriend 40 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He bought flowers for a girlfriend<br>\nhe hadn\u2019t seen in 40 years.<br>\nTheir\u2019s had been a teenage love<br>\nthat lasted only for 2 years.<br>\nBut he pined for her all his life,<br>\nnever quite got over her.<br>\nWhen he finally got to see her<br>\nshe\u2019d been dead a few years.<br>\nHe gently placed the flowers<br>\nhe bought her upon her grave,<br>\nand told her he\u2019d always love<br>\nher as tears fell from his eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He bought flowers for a girlfriend he hadn\u2019t seen in 40 years. Their\u2019s had been a teenage love that lasted only for 2 years. But he pined for her all his life, never quite got over her. When he finally got to see her she\u2019d been dead a few years. He gently placed the flowers&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/meeting-an-ex-girlfriend-40-years-later\/\">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\/5815"}],"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=5815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}