{"id":5574,"date":"2026-05-09T12:34:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/?p=5574"},"modified":"2026-05-09T12:34:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:34:03","slug":"a-spider-hanging-down-in-front-of-my-face-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/2026\/05\/09\/a-spider-hanging-down-in-front-of-my-face-a-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"A Spider Hanging Down in Front of My Face a Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was sound asleep until in a dream<br \/>\nI saw a spider hanging from a spider<br \/>\nthread in front of my face.<\/p>\n<p>It looked so real that I thought it<br \/>\nwasn\u2019t a dream and woke up<br \/>\nready to bat it away from my face.<\/p>\n<p>And I wondered why me, why did<br \/>\nthat goddamn spider have to hassle<br \/>\nme in that dream?<\/p>\n<p>I looked up meanings of spiders in<br \/>\ndreams, but didn\u2019t find any that<br \/>\napplied to me.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the meaning was it was<br \/>\njust a goddamn spider that<br \/>\nvisited me in a lousy dream.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sound asleep until in a dream I saw a spider hanging from a spider thread in front of my face. It looked so real that I thought it wasn\u2019t a dream and woke up ready to bat it away from my face. And I wondered why me, why did that goddamn spider have&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/2026\/05\/09\/a-spider-hanging-down-in-front-of-my-face-a-dream\/\">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-5574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574","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=5574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}