{"id":103,"date":"1990-08-30T06:23:13","date_gmt":"1990-08-30T11:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/?p=103"},"modified":"2014-05-14T12:06:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T17:06:26","slug":"mother-father-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/mother-father-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"mother, father, cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Do demons stand still? Can you look for them in corners or out of the way places? Do demons stop long enough for you to see them? Do demons stand near us? Where do they&nbsp;stand?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the dream, my house has been transformed into a filthy hole. The kitchen is a mess, bits of food, dirty pots and pans, and crusty dishes piled everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>My mother sits on the patio and smokes cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>My father sits in the living room, studying Talmud.<\/p>\n<p>I try to clean up the&nbsp;mess.<\/p>\n<p>My cat walks though my dream, his mind embraced by madness. His mouth gapes, his eyes stare, insane light shining through. His tongue flaps out between his fangs, drooling mucous and vomit. He yowls to wake the&nbsp;dead.<\/p>\n<p>I call to my mother to put on her glasses. I ask her \u201cCan you see him? Can you see the cat?\u201d She doesn\u2019t answer. And I ask her again, and then I say \u201cCan you see demons..?\u201d And I go into my earlier ideas on demons. I speak and the cat yowls and in the living room my father is a dusty corpse.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I woke from this dream I was saying \u201cDo demons stand still?\u201d in a breathless gasp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do demons stand still? Can you look for them in corners or out of the way places? Do demons stop long enough for you to see them? Do demons stand near us? Where do they&nbsp;stand? In the dream, my house has been transformed into a filthy hole. The kitchen is a mess, bits of&nbsp;food,&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[173,77,159,78,165,171,161,163,172,101,157,162,168,82,167,169,166,164,170,160,158],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams","tag-1990s","tag-breathless","tag-cats","tag-choking","tag-cigarettes","tag-corpse","tag-demons","tag-dishes","tag-dust","tag-father","tag-gasp","tag-kitchen","tag-madness","tag-mother","tag-pans","tag-posession","tag-pots","tag-smoking","tag-spoiled-food","tag-talmud","tag-west-park-central"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}