I hear the door opens as she enters, the floorboards creak as she approaches the bedside, feel her palms on my shoulder as she shakes me awake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c<\/span>You have to wake up, you have to wake up, you have to wake up\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Insistent, urgency in her voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I twitch, struggling against the paralytic bonds of sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I open my eyes, I am alone in the room save for the pale light of morning coming in through the window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was not my wife\u2019s voice I heard, not her touch that woke me\u2014no, just the spirit of this place, this house of ours, coming to rouse me on my day off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I lay back and consider going back to sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The real question<\/em>, I tell myself, is whether or not you\u2019re going to choose to believe in these sorts of things or not. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s a fair point. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I get up and go downstairs where I relate the events of the morning to my wife. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And then I check the house, just to m able sure everything is safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I hear the door opens as she enters, the floorboards creak as she approaches the bedside, feel her palms on my shoulder as she shakes me awake. \u201cYou have to wake up, you have to wake up, you have to wake up\u2026\u201d Insistent, urgency in her voice. I twitch, struggling against the paralytic bonds of sleep. When I open [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[219,83,13,608,100],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dreams","category-hallucinations","tag-alarms","tag-bedroom","tag-early-morning","tag-the-last-house","tag-wife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","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=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}