{"id":3705,"date":"2008-08-11T06:22:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T14:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3705"},"modified":"2008-08-11T06:24:02","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T14:24:02","slug":"i-have-a-nightmare-that-ive-become-a-pack-rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3705","title":{"rendered":"I Have A Nightmare That I&#8217;ve Become A Pack Rat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not falling asleep until around 5 am these days. Then I have these vivid nightmares around 7 am.<\/p>\n<p>Today I dream that I&#8217;ve invited Rob Spallone over.<\/p>\n<p>He drops by and then goes to see a friend in the same apartment complex.<\/p>\n<p>I ask him to take my video camera with him so I can accumulate content. This guy&#8217;s always amusing. For a decade, I just turned on my tape recorder when I was around him and then went home and wrote him up.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how I&#8217;m going to justify to my rabbi publishing Rob&#8217;s profane-laden outbursts.<\/p>\n<p>Rob and his friend are going out.<\/p>\n<p>I tell them to wait up.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve accummulated too much stuff and I try to schlep it along.<\/p>\n<p>I dump it into the back of Rob&#8217;s friend&#8217;s pickup.<\/p>\n<p>I go back to my place to gather more stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I carry it over to the pickup but find they&#8217;ve dumped all my stuff out and left already.<\/p>\n<p>I try to clean everything up but this causes me to miss my final college exams and I flunk all of my classes.<\/p>\n<p>I realize I should just go to my doctor and get him to write a note about my Chronic Fatigue Syndrome so that I can just drop my classes instead of failing them, but I&#8217;m too tired and overwhelmed to do the smart thing.<\/p>\n<p>Many years go by. I want to go back to college but I&#8217;m haunted by these string of failures.<\/p>\n<p>Nightmares about rabbis and nightmares about failing my exams are common themes in my nightlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not falling asleep until around 5 am these days. Then I have these vivid nightmares around 7 am. Today I dream that I&#8217;ve invited Rob Spallone over. He drops by and then goes to see a friend in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3705\">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":[21],"tags":[7070,11165,10089,3312,11166],"class_list":["post-3705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-chronic-fatigue-syndrome","tag-pack-rat","tag-rob-spallone","tag-tape-recorder","tag-video-camera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705","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=3705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}