{"id":1991,"date":"2025-04-18T22:18:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T22:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/a-dream-of-bombs-falling\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T22:18:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T22:18:34","slug":"a-dream-of-bombs-falling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/a-dream-of-bombs-falling\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dream of Bombs Falling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I dreamed about bombs<br>\nbeginning to fall, and braced for<br>\nthe impending explosions,<br>\nbut woke up before the bombs fell.<\/p>\n<p>Though a dream, the feeling was<br>\nas real as if I were in a country<br>\nwhere bombs were always<br>\nabout to fall.<\/p>\n<p>I woke up relieved the falling bombs<br>\nwere only a dream, and wondered<br>\nwhat that dream was really about<\/p>\n<p>or what I\u2019d seen or read about<br>\nduring the day that might have<br>\nmanifested in that dream.<\/p>\n<p>Now I\u2019m imagining how horrifying it<br>\nmust be to live, or have lived, in a country<br>\nwhere bombs are always about to fall.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I dreamed about bombs beginning to fall, and braced for the impending explosions, but woke up before the bombs fell. Though a dream, the feeling was as real as if I were in a country where bombs were always about to fall. I woke up relieved the falling bombs were only a dream,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/a-dream-of-bombs-falling\/\">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":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}