{"id":22,"date":"2005-09-15T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T21:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/\/dream\/"},"modified":"2005-09-15T13:00:58","modified_gmt":"2005-09-15T19:00:58","slug":"dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the dream, I was moving about <\/p>\n

a 4-story house. People were on each floor. I was looking for pen & paper to write down a poem.<\/p>\n

As I moved up the stairs, the <\/p>\n

situation seemed to become more frantic. Now I had 2 — 3 — no, 4! — poems in mind. And no pants.<\/p>\n

At the highest level, mind <\/p>\n

whirling, I passed a man, played by William Shatner, who called out a lament. His wife sobbed, “why are you doing this to yourself?” His <\/p>\n

son grabbed me and said, “this isn’t at all like you said it would be.”<\/p>\n

Make the people disappear and give me a pen! Just then <\/p>\n

the alarm sounded.<\/p>\n

What follows is the only remotely poetic fragment to survive the chaos. I offer it as evidence of how much <\/p>\n

better dreams are than reality. Still, it has some humor and a complex touch; somehow, it involves 5 people in 5 lines.<\/p>\n

When I met <\/p>\n

my brother’s
\nex-girlfriend’s husband,
\nI said,
\n“oh, brother,
\nare you lucky.” mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the dream, I was moving about a 4-story house. People were on each floor. I was looking for pen & paper to write down a poem. As I moved up the stairs, the situation seemed to become more frantic. Now I had 2 — 3 — no, 4! — poems in mind. And no … Continue reading Dream<\/span> →<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}