{"id":4298,"date":"2020-10-08T17:33:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T00:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4298"},"modified":"2020-10-08T17:33:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T00:33:14","slug":"ontological-question-within-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/10\/08\/ontological-question-within-a-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontological Question Within A Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I know I am asleep. I am floating, cruising through an old neighborhood. I recognize every detail of the houses and the trees. Perhaps I am just exploring the deepest, untouched basement spaces of my memory, where everything is stored? I float by an antique shop. The elderly owner, opening it up, looks at me. Now I muse: am I experiencing astral projection within my dream? I float by a little boy in black: going to a funeral? He is snagged on my floating robes, which are also black. I wonder: is this how one becomes, all unknowing, a witch? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"http:\/\/caesarc.msu.domains\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Cheryl Caesar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cheryl lived in Paris, Tuscany and Sligo for 25 years; she earned her doctorate in comparative literature at the Sorbonne and taught literature and phonetics. She now teaches writing at Michigan State University.  Last year she published over a hundred poems in the U.S., Germany, India, Bangladesh, Yemen and Zimbabwe, and won third prize in the Singapore Poetry Contest for her poem on global warming. Her chapbook Flatman: Poems of Protest in the Trump Era is now available from Amazon and Goodreads. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I am asleep. I am floating, cruising through an old neighborhood. I recognize every detail of the houses and the trees. Perhaps I am just exploring the deepest, untouched basement spaces of my memory, where everything is stored? I float by an antique shop. The elderly owner, opening it up, looks at me. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9502,9503,3110,250,9227,5914,1065,550,6811,1159,2102,3002,3488,4148,8669,675,776],"class_list":["post-4298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-antique-shop","tag-astral-projection","tag-basement","tag-boy","tag-cheryl-caesar","tag-detail","tag-dream","tag-funeral","tag-houses","tag-memory","tag-neighborhood","tag-owner","tag-question","tag-robes","tag-spaces","tag-trees","tag-witch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4299,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions\/4299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}