{"id":1791,"date":"2008-08-09T15:13:58","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T23:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2008\/08\/09\/i-didnt-read-the-title-of-the-latter-i-just-kind-of-knew-it\/"},"modified":"2008-08-09T15:13:58","modified_gmt":"2008-08-09T23:13:58","slug":"i-didnt-read-the-title-of-the-latter-i-just-kind-of-knew-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2008\/08\/09\/i-didnt-read-the-title-of-the-latter-i-just-kind-of-knew-it\/","title":{"rendered":"I didn&#8217;t read the title of the latter, I just kind of knew it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many people, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crummy.com\/2004\/03\/10\/0\" title=\"It's actually pretty hard to find confirmation of this phenomenon online.\">can&#8217;t read in dreams<\/a>, but sometimes I really enjoy the things my brain comes up with to rationalize that.  Like last night, when I stood in line for hours for the new Harry-Potter-analog book, finally got to the front and picked up my copy, and discovered that its cover text was in Cyrillic.  &#8220;Of course,&#8221; I thought, &#8220;I think I remember hearing this one was in Russian.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then I glanced over and noticed a series of five John Bellairs books that I remembered enjoying in high school (including one called <i>Whistle and Hum<\/i>).  I thought about finding them for a while after I woke up, until I realized they don&#8217;t exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many people, I can&#8217;t read in dreams, but sometimes I really enjoy the things my brain comes up with to rationalize that. Like last night, when I stood in line for hours for the new Harry-Potter-analog book, finally got to the front and picked up my copy, and discovered that its cover text was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-mild-lunacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}