{"id":1314,"date":"2007-12-25T21:43:01","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T02:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironwil.net\/writings\/2007\/12\/25\/with-the-strength-of-dreams\/"},"modified":"2007-12-25T21:43:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T02:43:01","slug":"with-the-strength-of-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2007\/12\/with-the-strength-of-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"With the strength of Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m dying in the snow,<br \/>\nflakes falling all around &#8211;<br \/>\nBlackness caressing the night sky,<br \/>\nand the two create a soft diffusing grayness;<br \/>\nStaring up at the swirling,<br \/>\ngentle cold &#8211;<br \/>\nletting it creep over me and swallow me.<\/p>\n<p>Deep dreams fill me,<br \/>\nthings from the past &#8211;<br \/>\nAncient people I&#8217;ve never met,<br \/>\nDreams of those ages long ago;<br \/>\nknights in shining armor,<br \/>\nladies on ponies &#8211;<br \/>\nand castles in distant lands.<\/p>\n<p>A slap of cold,<br \/>\nstartles me &#8211;<br \/>\nand I awake to mounds of snow,<br \/>\nfluffy white cold smothering the strength of my bones;<br \/>\nthe dreams returning &amp; giving strength,<br \/>\nmaking blood fire &#8211;<br \/>\nwaking &amp; driving me to my goal.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">wil becker<br \/>\n1996.01.29\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/us\/\" rel=\"license\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/images\/public\/somerights20.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m dying in the snow, flakes falling all around &#8211; Blackness caressing the night sky, and the two create a soft diffusing grayness; Staring up at the swirling, gentle cold &#8211; letting it creep over me and swallow me. Deep dreams fill me, things from the past &#8211; Ancient people I&#8217;ve never met, Dreams of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}