{"id":87,"date":"2005-02-22T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-22T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/22\/i-dream-of-paris\/"},"modified":"2005-02-22T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-22T13:30:00","slug":"i-dream-of-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/22\/i-dream-of-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"I dream of Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city &#8211; not the bimbo.  In my dream I&#8217;m in France somewhere, trying desperately to get home to America.  The map isn&#8217;t much help, but I finally locate a road sign and I make my way to Paris and locate an international airport.  Still not speaking any french at all, I find an American speaking ticket agent who finds a flight for me leaving in 20 minutes &#8211; a direct flight to the Akron\/Canton airport &#8211; perfect!  (Unlikely, yes, but still perfect).<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a problem, of course.  He won&#8217;t get me on the flight until I ask my friend from college if she would like to make a &#8220;French Connection&#8221; with him.  I turn and see C. in a bookstore across the concourse. What she&#8217;s doing in Paris is a mystery and how this guy knew that I used to know her is also puzzleing, but I really want to get home.  So, I try to casually talk to her &#8211; without it looking like I&#8217;m actually talking to her &#8211; in case he figures out who she is and stalks her even if she says no.  I somehow manage to ask her and she casually glances over at him.  She smiles at me and says she&#8217;ll think about it.  And I&#8217;m like &#8220;Well, think quickly, the plane leaves in 15 minutes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I woke up before she made a decision &#8211; so at least a little part of me is stuck in an airport in Paris &#8211; forever waiting for the answer to a &#8220;booty call&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if there&#8217;s anything to that?  If the land of dreams exists somewhere and unless you make a graceful exit, you can get stuck.   With the throughness and intensity of my dreams, there can&#8217;t be much left of me here anymore.  They are always so real and vivid &#8211; kinda makes you wonder.  I suppose there are worse places to be stuck in a dream than Paris (see any of my zombie entries) &#8211; but it does explain why I had so much trouble getting up this morning &#8211; I wanted to go back and get the rest of me.<\/p>\n<p>Well, back to work&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-110907996550106900?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city &#8211; not the bimbo. In my dream I&#8217;m in France somewhere, trying desperately to get home to America. The map isn&#8217;t much help, but I finally locate a road sign and I make my way to Paris and locate an international airport. Still not speaking any french at all, I find an American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}