{"id":35870,"date":"2017-08-05T16:09:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=35870"},"modified":"2017-08-05T16:09:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:09:56","slug":"bad-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/bad-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So here I am again.<br \/>\nSad. What&#8217;s new?<br \/>\nMy dreams are rarely wrong.<br \/>\nAnd I had one of those dreams last night.<br \/>\nWhere the girl in the dream should have been me.<br \/>\nBut she wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Then he came into my dream. He met someone. And he was so incredibly happy. He updated his status. Changed his music. Changed his profile pic. And all I could do was wish that girl was me. I woke up sad and empty.<\/p>\n<p>A feeling I haven&#8217;t had in a long long while.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pointless bring unhappy over something I can&#8217;t control. Why give someone else control over my happiness. That&#8217;s not on. Only I have that right. Giving someone else control over my happiness is giving them control over my life.<\/p>\n<p>So what if I had a dream. So what if my dream isn&#8217;t wrong. I guess at the end of the day everyone deserves to be happy. And mine is taking that much longer. Because when it happens &#8211; I will only spend my time enjoying that happiness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here I am again. Sad. What&#8217;s new? My dreams are rarely wrong. And I had one of those dreams last night. Where the girl in the dream should have been me. But she wasn&#8217;t. Then he came into my dream. He met someone. And&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1046,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35870","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\/1046"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35876,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35870\/revisions\/35876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}