{"id":155,"date":"2026-06-01T04:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2026-06-01T04:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:34:14","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/poemsbybobboyd.com\/poems\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/poemsbybobboyd.com\/poems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/me_with_bigfoot_202604161553-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"thumbnail alignnone size-medium wp-image-33\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poemsbybobboyd.com\/poems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/me_with_bigfoot_202604161553-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/poemsbybobboyd.com\/poems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/me_with_bigfoot_202604161553-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/poemsbybobboyd.com\/poems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/me_with_bigfoot_202604161553-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/poemsbybobboyd.com\/poems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/me_with_bigfoot_202604161553-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/poemsbybobboyd.com\/poems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/me_with_bigfoot_202604161553.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>81 now. Began writing poetry at age 78. Cancer survivor, gained enormous personal and spiritual growth from the cancer. Work out 3 times weekly. Ride an exercise bike daily.<\/p>\n<p>I have written over 3,000 poems to date in a little over two years, and I write at least 3 poems daily. I have an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and often research info for my poems.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not enlightened, but I&#8217;ve seen the white light that is bright like the sun and received a permanent spiritual experience from it since age 27. I believe compassion is important for true spiritual growth, and, to borrow from a Sufi saying, that there are as many paths to God as humans have souls.<\/p>\n<p>Last, I see death as the awakening of a lifetime and the ultimate relocation. I base this on reading and listening to many near death experiences since the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I almost forgot, that me when I was hiking with Bigfoot. Yeah, I&#8217;m just kidding. The Bigfoot is an AI rendering. The guy in the photo is the real me.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>81 now. Began writing poetry at age 78. Cancer survivor, gained enormous personal and spiritual growth from the cancer. Work out 3 times weekly. Ride an exercise bike daily. I have written over 3,000 poems to date in a little over two years, and I write at least 3 poems daily. I have an unquenchable &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/poemsbybobboyd.com\/poems\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-155","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poemsbybobboyd.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poemsbybobboyd.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poemsbybobboyd.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poemsbybobboyd.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poemsbybobboyd.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poemsbybobboyd.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poemsbybobboyd.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}