{"id":468,"date":"2009-03-02T22:03:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T22:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/a-vivid-dream-of-my-father\/"},"modified":"2009-03-02T22:03:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T22:03:19","slug":"a-vivid-dream-of-my-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/a-vivid-dream-of-my-father\/","title":{"rendered":"A Vivid Dream Of My Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c78f953ef011168a57206970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Scotland\" border=\"0\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341c78f953ef011168a57206970c image-full \" src=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c78f953ef011168a57206970c-800wi\" title=\"Scotland\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>I am wired for dreaming.&#0160; Been that way for as long as I can remember.<\/p>\n<p>I guess its no surprise then that I would grieve via the dream path.&#0160; Such was the case a couple of nights ago when I had a vivid dream of my father.&#0160; I need to write about this, so bear with me.<\/p>\n<p>In the dream I found myself arriving at a hospital and moving quickly to an area that was obviously ICU.&#0160; Before I got to the actual patient area I saw a family weeping.&#0160; In my mind I thought: I understand.&#0160; <\/p>\n<p>When I reached what I knew was the final destination, there lying motionless and peaceful was a man I did not know.&#0160; A loved one standing next to me was weeping.&#0160; In my mind I thought: I understand.&#0160; <\/p>\n<p>Not much longer I turned and saw my father.&#0160; He looked like the first man.&#0160; He was lying motionless and peaceful.&#0160; In my mind I thought: I understand, he&#39;s gone.<\/p>\n<p>To my shock, my father woke up and began to make haste to leave.&#0160; The nurses settled him and ask him to sit calmly on an empty bed.&#0160; With eagerness he did so&#8230;as I looked on somewhat confused.&#0160; I approached him to embrace, but as my arms wrapped around him he disappeared and I awoke from the dream.<\/p>\n<p>And painfully in my mind I thought: I understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am wired for dreaming.&#0160; Been that way for as long as I can remember. I guess its no surprise then that I would grieve via the dream path.&#0160; Such was the case a couple of nights ago when I had a vivid dream of my father.&#0160; I need to write about this, so bear&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}