{"id":61,"date":"2004-02-28T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-28T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2008-08-12T23:12:52","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T04:12:52","slug":"61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/friends\/61\/","title":{"rendered":"They say Confucius does his crossword with a pen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weird, weird dream last night. I was chewing on some sort of fish or small-animal bones (why?) and I broke my front tooth. It hurt and looked ridiculous. I was so embarrassed, but couldn&#8217;t concentrate on my pitiful mouth because I was too busy trying to evacuate a house that was quickly becoming uninhabitable.<\/p>\n<p>According to some dream web sites, dreaming about losing teeth indicates that you&#8217;re self-conscious about something, or feeling powerless. It can also mean &#8212; if you&#8217;re religious &#8212; that you&#8217;re straying away from god and putting all your stock in the words of men. The Chinese believe that if you dream your teeth are falling out it means you&#8217;ve been telling lies.<\/p>\n<p>This all seems to be incredibly appropriate, since Amber, Phil and I had one of <em>those <\/em>discussions last night. About god and death and meaning. Amber&#8217;s rooting for the romantic notion of the cosmic ball of energy. Phil&#8217;s counting on aliens monitoring us. Me? I&#8217;ve never been more confused in my life. And pissed that this riddle could either be a cruel, lifelong joke, or a beautiful blink in time that I might miss because I&#8217;m so busy trying to figure it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weird, weird dream last night. I was chewing on some sort of fish or small-animal bones (why?) and I broke my front tooth. It hurt and looked ridiculous. I was so embarrassed, but couldn&#8217;t concentrate on my pitiful mouth because I was too busy trying to evacuate a house that was quickly becoming uninhabitable. According to some dream web sites, dreaming about losing teeth indicates that you&#8217;re self-conscious about something, or feeling powerless. It can&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[164,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams","category-friends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1jWWl-61","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}