{"id":20831,"date":"2016-08-13T14:17:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=20831"},"modified":"2016-08-13T21:55:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T01:55:20","slug":"magic-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/magic-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was once in a coma for about 2 years. I had many dreams during this time, but the one I remember most clearly went something like this:<\/p>\n<p>I was walking down the street, and<\/p>\n<p>a box was blocking my path. It was no bigger than the size of a watermelon, but<\/p>\n<p>It was there.<\/p>\n<p>Every one else seemed to<\/p>\n<p>Walk around it. as if unconsciously avoiding it.<\/p>\n<p>I asked a passerby, &#8220;do you see that box??&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;what box?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I pointed in front of me. &#8220;that box! the one right there&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He looked at the box and back at me, as if<\/p>\n<p>I were crazy.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly he couldn&#8217;t see it.<\/p>\n<p>I asked 3 more people. A young couple with tightly clasped hands<\/p>\n<p>And an old woman with a dog in her purse.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>All of them said they saw no box. The old woman offered to call an ambulance for me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>so I picked up the box, this box meant for me. And I opened it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Magic leapt into<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">My hands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And then I woke up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was once in a coma for about 2 years. I had many dreams during this time, but the one I remember most clearly went something like this: I was walking down the street, and a box was blocking my path. It was no bigger&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20831","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\/761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20997,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20831\/revisions\/20997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}