{"id":435,"date":"2008-06-01T19:00:33","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T19:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/?p=435"},"modified":"2008-06-01T19:00:33","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T19:00:33","slug":"the-dream-called-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/06\/01\/the-dream-called-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dream Called Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n       The Dream Called Life\r\n\r\nA dream it was in which I found myself.\r\nAnd you that hail me now, then hailed me king,\r\nIn a brave palace that was all my own,\r\nWithin, and all without it, mine; until,\r\nDrunk with excess of majesty and pride,\r\nMethought I towered so big and swelled so wide\r\nThat of myself I burst the glittering bubble\r\nWhich my ambition had about me blown,\r\nAnd all again was darkness. Such a dream\r\nAs this, in which I may be walking now,\r\nDispensing solemn justice to you shadows,\r\nWho make believe to listen; but anon\r\nKings, princes, captains, warriors, plume and steel,\r\nAye, even with all your airy theatre,\r\nMay flit into the air you seem to rend\r\nWith acclamations, leaving me to wake\r\nIn the dark tower; or dreaming that I wake\r\nFrom this that waking is; or this and that,\r\nBoth waking and both dreaming; such a doubt\r\nConfounds and clouds our moral life about.\r\nBut whether wake or dreaming, this I know,\r\nHow dreamwise human glories come and go;\r\nWhose momentary tenure not to break,\r\nWalking as one who knows he soon may wake,\r\nSo fairly carry the full cup, so well\r\nDisordered insolence and passion quell,\r\nThat there be nothing after to upbraid\r\nDreamer or doer in the part he played;\r\nWhether tomorrow's dawn shall break the spell,\r\nOr the last trumpet of the Eternal Day,\r\nWhen dreaming, with the night, shall pass away.\r\n\r\n            -- by Edward Fitzgerald\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dream Called Life A dream it was in which I found myself. And you that hail me now, then hailed me king, In a brave palace that was all my own, Within, and all without it, mine; until, Drunk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/06\/01\/the-dream-called-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[382,407],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-personal","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}