{"id":5883,"date":"2026-05-26T08:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/?p=5883"},"modified":"2026-05-26T08:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:02:19","slug":"when-she-learned-she-had-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/when-she-learned-she-had-alzheimers\/","title":{"rendered":"When She Learned She Had Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When an elderly woman was diagnosed<br>\nwith Alzheimer\u2019s, the shock of it nearly<br>\ngave her a heart attack.<br>\nShe had expected she had something wrong<br>\nwith her mind.<br>\nBut she hoped doctors would find a cure for it.<br>\nWhen she found out it was Alzheimer\u2019s, and<br>\nno cure existed for it,<br>\nshe decided to end her life by walking into<br>\nthe deep water of a pond and drowning to death.<br>\nI can understand that and were I her, I\u2019d feel<br>\nthe same way, though I can\u2019t say I\u2019d end my life.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When an elderly woman was diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s, the shock of it nearly gave her a heart attack. She had expected she had something wrong with her mind. But she hoped doctors would find a cure for it. When she found out it was Alzheimer\u2019s, and no cure existed for it, she decided to end&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/when-she-learned-she-had-alzheimers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883"}],"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=5883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5884,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883\/revisions\/5884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}