{"id":3005,"date":"2010-01-29T23:42:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T04:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=3005"},"modified":"2010-01-30T23:51:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T04:51:13","slug":"edges-of-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2010\/01\/29\/edges-of-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"edges of sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time staggers between day and night,<br \/>\na mosaic of the now and used to be<br \/>\nlaid out with a fury that suggests<br \/>\nthe artist is angry. Oh, to sleep:<br \/>\nand there to discover the order of dreams<br \/>\nin a field of wildflowers presided over<br \/>\nby infants and amoebas.<!--more--> The alphabet<br \/>\nwritten by the days&#8217; mistaken pen<br \/>\nspells nonsense to the dreamer, sense<br \/>\nto the schizophrenic who rules it.<br \/>\nIt is no wonder the sane play games:<br \/>\ngames&#8217; rules make sense and all in games<br \/>\nfollow the rules; in the mosaic strewn<br \/>\nby time, power and wealth break rules,<br \/>\nand the inmates are running the Asylum.<br \/>\nOh, to sleep if that is possible; and if it is not,<br \/>\nto seek and find those parts of the mosaic<br \/>\nthat form a field of anemones, daisies,<br \/>\nsweet william, and soft-scented wild roses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We do not get enough sleep, and our lives reflect that. (#1045) <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2010\/01\/29\/edges-of-sleep\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,7,3,416],"tags":[129,145,147],"class_list":["post-3005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotus-eaters","category-mild-mannered-opinion","category-poetry","category-thoughts-below-ground","tag-beauty","tag-social-commentary","tag-social-criticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}