{"id":14201,"date":"2015-06-14T08:18:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T12:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=14201"},"modified":"2015-06-14T08:18:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T12:18:27","slug":"wishful-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/wishful-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Wishful Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dreams are the imagery of what we long for,<\/p>\n<p>neural playground for the literary soul, to wander,<\/p>\n<p>with flashes of memory, their fabric ripped and<\/p>\n<p>slurried, run with others, to rise dripping with thought<\/p>\n<p>and vividly there. Ripped and wrenched, stirred<\/p>\n<p>in the vat of short-term memory, dislodged from<\/p>\n<p>common sense. Shaken, melded, fibers rearranged<\/p>\n<p>to both nonsensical and realistic themes.<\/p>\n<p>You and I astride some great behemoth,<\/p>\n<p>talking of pashas and rainfall,<\/p>\n<p>the taste of what we wanted, the feel of hands on,<\/p>\n<p>of legs, of us becoming in the brief neural flicker<\/p>\n<p>twin stars which never fade in that brief immortality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dreams are the imagery of what we long for, neural playground for the literary soul, to wander, with flashes of memory, their fabric ripped and slurried, run with others, to rise dripping with thought and vividly there. Ripped and wrenched, stirred in the vat of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,12,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14239,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14201\/revisions\/14239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}