{"id":3975,"date":"2026-03-16T13:51:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T03:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/?p=3975"},"modified":"2026-03-16T13:51:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T03:51:52","slug":"south-of-the-border-a-poem-by-bill-kochman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/south-of-the-border-a-poem-by-bill-kochman\/","title":{"rendered":"SOUTH OF THE BORDER &#8212; a poem and song by BBB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/south-of-the-border-optimized.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/south-of-the-border-optimized.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/south-of-the-border-optimized-557x696.png 557w, https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/south-of-the-border-optimized-768x960.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>#Poetry #Poem<\/p>\n<p>SOUTH OF THE BORDER<\/p>\n<p>by Bill Kochman<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bill's Bible Basics Poetry and Songs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Poetry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Poetry<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12-14-2016<\/p>\n<p>Are you really a blessing,<br \/>\nOr just a spiritual drain?<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause no one wants to hear,<br \/>\nConstantly about your pain.<\/p>\n<p>We all have enough problems,<br \/>\nEven more as we grow old,<br \/>\nTalking about nothing else,<br \/>\nCan just leave a person cold.<\/p>\n<p>So please let a few praises,<br \/>\nProceed more from your mouth,<br \/>\nAnd let all of your sad groans,<br \/>\nTake a serious detour south.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#Poetry #Poem SOUTH OF THE BORDER by Bill Kochman https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Poetry 12-14-2016 Are you really a blessing, Or just a spiritual drain? &#8216;Cause no one wants to hear, Constantly about your pain. We all have enough problems, Even more as we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/south-of-the-border-a-poem-by-bill-kochman\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4772,3],"tags":[20,21,22,139,135,134,30,1942],"class_list":["post-3975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-poetry","tag-bill-kochman","tag-bills-bible-basics","tag-christian","tag-original","tag-poem","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-south-of-the-border"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3975"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39786,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions\/39786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}