{"id":22238,"date":"2010-08-08T05:27:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T13:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22238"},"modified":"2010-08-08T11:29:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T19:29:23","slug":"new-york-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22238","title":{"rendered":"New York, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

I take melatonin every night to sleep.<\/p>\n

One of its side effects is lurid dreams, which are quite disturbing for a man of piety.<\/p>\n

I’m having a lot of dreams of late about visiting New York. <\/p>\n

I see myself walking up long stairwells to visit someone’s apartment. I see myself going to shul. I see myself pushing my way through crowded streets. I see myself hanging out with great writers and providing Daphne Merkin the solace that no therapist can legally provide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ve only been in New York once. It was August 1994 when I was a good looking chap and lucky enough to have an older woman (by about five years) pay my way for three weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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