{"id":5535,"date":"2026-05-06T12:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/?p=5535"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:50:07","slug":"im-in-a-dream-as-a-person-who-isnt-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/2026\/05\/06\/im-in-a-dream-as-a-person-who-isnt-me\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m in a Dream As a Person Who Isn&#8217;t Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m in this dream as a person<br \/>\nwho isn\u2019t me.<\/p>\n<p>The scene is in a court where<br \/>\na wife is accusing me<\/p>\n<p>of something like neglect,<br \/>\nthings I didn\u2019t do<\/p>\n<p>because it\u2019s like I\u2019m in the<br \/>\nbody of her neglectful husband.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019m thinking to myself<br \/>\nthe wife is quite pretty,<\/p>\n<p>and were I really the husband,<br \/>\nI would have treated her better.<\/p>\n<p>I wake up thinking how the hell did<br \/>\nI have a weird dream like this?<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m in this dream as a person who isn\u2019t me. The scene is in a court where a wife is accusing me of something like neglect, things I didn\u2019t do because it\u2019s like I\u2019m in the body of her neglectful husband. And I\u2019m thinking to myself the wife is quite pretty, and were I really&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/2026\/05\/06\/im-in-a-dream-as-a-person-who-isnt-me\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=5535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}