{"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":"<p>I take melatonin every night to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>One of its side effects is lurid dreams, which are quite disturbing for a man of piety.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m having a lot of dreams of late about visiting New York. <\/p>\n<p>I see myself walking up long stairwells to visit someone&#8217;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 <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/08\/magazine\/08Psychoanalysis-t.html?ref=magazine\">providing Daphne Merkin the solace that no therapist can legally provide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;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":"<p>I take melatonin every night to sleep. One of its side effects is lurid dreams, which are quite disturbing for a man of piety. I&#8217;m having a lot of dreams of late about visiting New York. I see myself walking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22238\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[616,21],"tags":[14752,23173,16662,5362,23174],"class_list":["post-22238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york","category-personal","tag-jewish-new-york","tag-lurid-dreams","tag-melatonin","tag-older-woman","tag-stairwells"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22244,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22238\/revisions\/22244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}