{"id":557,"date":"2009-04-16T03:35:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T00:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/?p=557"},"modified":"2009-04-16T03:54:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T00:54:18","slug":"a-dream-you-had","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"A dream you had."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-559 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/252709144_1e9f64eaf1-283x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/252709144_1e9f64eaf1-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/252709144_1e9f64eaf1.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>I&#8217;m certain I know how this will all end &#8230; its in a dream &#8211; let&#8217;s start from the end.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">You picture this &#8230; your on a set of swings, your pushing against the wind. The wind pushes you back. You move your body against a force. You push yourself. The wind tries to pull\u00c2\u00a0 you back. You hang on tight &#8211; your flying along with the wind. You feel so different. And yet, it doesn&#8217;t feel so different.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>I&#8217;m certain I know how this will all end &#8230; its in a dream &#8211; let&#8217;s call it indifference.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>If you swing yourself on this rusty old swing &#8211; the metal bars will break. I wish I could tell you &#8211; that before you sat here, and decided to push against yourself, to try and fly .. that it will all come to an end. The swinging will come to a halt. The smile you painted across your face &#8211; that will soon chip off. The paint doesn&#8217;t last. The wind doesn&#8217;t always help. You picture this, I am on the swing. You push me, and I&#8217;m soaring towards the sky. My smile is transparent, and my heart is made of metal. It&#8217;s all so rusty &#8211; I don&#8217;t want to break.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>A swing set .. this was so innocent.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>This dream you had,\u00c2\u00a0 I told you .. I always told you .. keep your dreams to yourself.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>I wish I felt the wind brush my eyes, and kiss my lips.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>I wish, that good dreams never end.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>But &#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m certain I know how this will all end &#8230; its in a dream &#8211; let&#8217;s start from the end. You picture this &#8230; your on a set of swings, your pushing against the wind. The wind pushes you back. You move your body against a force. You push yourself. The wind tries to pull\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,7,9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}