{"id":55744,"date":"2019-06-23T03:23:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T07:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=55744"},"modified":"2019-06-23T03:26:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T07:26:55","slug":"bad-dream-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/bad-dream-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Response to Dear Little Self Whose Mother Didn&#8217;t Love You)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I called for you one night.<\/p>\n<p>You didn&#8217;t come.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t come to you<\/p>\n<p>because of the man with a knife<\/p>\n<p>who was in my bedroom door.<\/p>\n<p>He was real enough to me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I called and called.<\/p>\n<p>At last you came.<\/p>\n<p>You were angry at being awakened.<\/p>\n<p>You let me sleep the rest of the night<\/p>\n<p>with you.<\/p>\n<p>I needed the comfort of your arms,<\/p>\n<p>your voice.<\/p>\n<p>You turned your back to me<\/p>\n<p>and said nothing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At least the dream-man<\/p>\n<p>couldn&#8217;t get me there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Response to Dear Little Self Whose Mother Didn&#8217;t Love You) &nbsp; I called for you one night. You didn&#8217;t come. I couldn&#8217;t come to you because of the man with a knife who was in my bedroom door. He was real enough to me. &nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1150,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55744","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\/1150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56067,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55744\/revisions\/56067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}