{"id":5889,"date":"2026-05-27T06:37:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/?p=5889"},"modified":"2026-05-27T06:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:37:30","slug":"he-told-her-she-looked-good-for-her-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/he-told-her-she-looked-good-for-her-age\/","title":{"rendered":"He Told Her She Looked Good for Her Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melvin, age 50, told a female friend of his,<br>\nGloria, age 60, she looked good for her age.<br>\nInstead of appreciating the complement<br>\nGloria became pissed and raged.<br>\nShe called Melvin a son of a bitch.<br>\nMelvin tried to convince Gloria that<br>\nhe only meant to compliment her.<br>\nGloria became psycho crazy, pulled a<br>\npistol out of her purse, and shot Melvin.<br>\nMelvin bled out on the floor and<br>\na wild-eyed Gloria ran for the door.<br>\nThat was back in 2004, and the cops<br>\nstill haven\u2019t found a trace of Gloria,<br>\neven though she\u2019s living on her<br>\nSocial Security somewhere in Mexico. <\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melvin, age 50, told a female friend of his, Gloria, age 60, she looked good for her age. Instead of appreciating the complement Gloria became pissed and raged. She called Melvin a son of a bitch. Melvin tried to convince Gloria that he only meant to compliment her. Gloria became psycho crazy, pulled a pistol&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/he-told-her-she-looked-good-for-her-age\/\">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\/5889"}],"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=5889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5890,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889\/revisions\/5890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}