{"id":5854,"date":"2026-05-24T18:05:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/?p=5854"},"modified":"2026-05-24T18:05:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:05:50","slug":"the-old-mans-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-old-mans-body\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Mans Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His body gets weaker, stiffer,<br>\nrising from a chair without using the armrest<br>\ntakes more effort.<br>\nSometimes he experiences soreness in<br>\nhis aging legs upon waking,<br>\nand his walking is bit more labored.<br>\nHe feels like its pre rigor mortis creeping in,<br>\nsignaling his impending demise.<br>\nAs he wakes more from the sleeping world,<br>\nthe weakness, stiffness and soreness lessen.<br>\nAnd he\u2019s grateful for having lived a long life.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His body gets weaker, stiffer, rising from a chair without using the armrest takes more effort. Sometimes he experiences soreness in his aging legs upon waking, and his walking is bit more labored. He feels like its pre rigor mortis creeping in, signaling his impending demise. As he wakes more from the sleeping world, the&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-old-mans-body\/\">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":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854"}],"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=5854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}