{"id":73931,"date":"2020-06-28T02:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=73931"},"modified":"2020-06-28T02:22:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T06:22:00","slug":"when-dreams-feel-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/when-dreams-feel-real\/","title":{"rendered":"When Dreams Feel Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Dreams Feel Real:<\/p>\n<p>A Christmas Story<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I was six, Santa came<\/p>\n<p>in the darkened house as I slept<\/p>\n<p>on the frontroom couch. He strolled<\/p>\n<p>in the door and passed as I stared,<\/p>\n<p>pretending to sleep as I watched<\/p>\n<p>his velvet shimmer and his sack<\/p>\n<p>shake with each ginger step.<\/p>\n<p>When he looked for Eddie, asleep<\/p>\n<p>in our bunk beds, I ran<\/p>\n<p>to Mommy\u2019s room and spilled<\/p>\n<p>his secret. She snarled<\/p>\n<p>and said, <em>Go back to bed<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I did, but never forgot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Dreams Feel Real: A Christmas Story &nbsp; When I was six, Santa came in the darkened house as I slept on the frontroom couch. He strolled in the door and passed as I stared, pretending to sleep as I watched his velvet shimmer and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73931","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\/1040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73937,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73931\/revisions\/73937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}