{"id":460,"date":"2008-03-25T14:30:56","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T19:30:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-03-25T14:30:56","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T19:30:56","slug":"dreams-are-funny-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"dreams are funny things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What before appeared as waking from a nightmare was simply a dream itself.  I&#8217;ll elaborate later.  Much has happened in the past two weeks &#8211; but not as I had hoped it to be.<\/p>\n<p>Right on time too.  Having more than platonic love in my life on my birthday is becoming as rare as elephants in Alaska.  Even Celeste and I broke up right before March&#8230; so did Christel&#8230;. and we all know what happened in March of 2006.  I should probably propose on the spot to the next girl that will actually be around to kiss me on my birthday.<\/p>\n<p>All may not be lost, but it will be a long road through a dark forest before I see the light of day again.  I understand her motives (again, more on that later) and I&#8217;ll cooperate with her needs, but it is with incredible heartache on my part (at least at this early stage).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile I&#8217;m going to take a big step this weekend and turn in my application to grad school.  More details on that if and when I get in (a decision will be in my inbox by July 1st).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What before appeared as waking from a nightmare was simply a dream itself. I&#8217;ll elaborate later. Much has happened in the past two weeks &#8211; but not as I had hoped it to be. Right on time too. Having more than platonic love in my life on my birthday is becoming as rare as elephants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}