{"id":2711,"date":"2025-09-23T12:31:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T12:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/the-women-in-my-dreams-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T12:31:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T12:31:04","slug":"the-women-in-my-dreams-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-women-in-my-dreams-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Women in My Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve met many women in dreams.<br>\nEver hear of Marilyn Monroe?<br>\nNever met her in a dream, lol.<br>\nAlways unknown women,<br>\nnever erotic, sometimes romantic.<br>\nErotic could mean a succubus \u2013 egads!<br>\nJust as things start to go somewhere<br>\nlike a caress and a kiss, I wake up,<br>\nas if in dreams I\u2019m striking out, lol.<\/p>\n<p>To give an amateur interpretation<br>\nOf those women in my dreams,<br>\nmaybe somewhere in my muted depths<br>\nI\u2019m a repressed romantic with<br>\nromantic notions sometimes<br>\nsurfacing in my nightly slumbers.<\/p>\n<p>When I first had a blood cancer,<br>\nthat was trying it\u2019s damnedest<br>\nto take me out, I began having<br>\ndreams of women galore<br>\npractically every night.<br>\nI wondered if they were<br>\nangels hovering around me<br>\nto guide me into the afterlife,<br>\njust in case the cancer<br>\nkilled me.<\/p>\n<p>After the cancer went into remission,<br>\nI rarely had dreams of women.<br>\nexcept an occasional romantic<br>\ndream of an alluring one.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve met many women in dreams. Ever hear of Marilyn Monroe? Never met her in a dream, lol. Always unknown women, never erotic, sometimes romantic. Erotic could mean a succubus \u2013 egads! Just as things start to go somewhere like a caress and a kiss, I wake up, as if in dreams I\u2019m striking out,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-women-in-my-dreams-2\/\">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":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711"}],"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=2711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}