{"id":2747,"date":"2009-03-22T12:17:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T19:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/dreams\/old-friends-a-dream\/"},"modified":"2010-10-02T14:50:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T20:50:52","slug":"old-friends-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/dreams\/old-friends-a-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Friends (a dream)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the dream, I was sitting at the end of a long table in a setting like a library, although it may have been a restaurant. I was talking with a man from Indian. One of us spoke of another person we might both know. Another man from India joined us. (Not the person we had just discussed.)<\/p>\n<p>My Droog, John Merck, appeared nearby, letting his presence be known without interrupting the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>I got up from the table to hug John, who was much younger than he is in real life. When we ended our hug, John said, &quot;You&#8217;re wearing potato pants!&quot; I didn&#8217;t notice anything odd about my pants and John did not explain his remark.<\/p>\n<p>John began to speak in an odd mock-accent he intended to be funny. I couldn&#8217;t understand much of what he said, even when he repeated it, but I knew there was a joke in the message as well as the medium. I was irritated.<\/p>\n<p>Another old friend appeared in young form: Charlene came up with a 10 year-old dark-haired boy. I awoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the dream, I was sitting at the end of a long table in a setting like a library, although it may have been a restaurant. I was talking with a man from Indian. One of us spoke of another person we might both know. Another man from India joined us. (Not the person we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/dreams\/old-friends-a-dream\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Old Friends (a dream)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-2747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams","tag-droogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747","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=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}