{"id":163,"date":"2013-01-14T07:06:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T12:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/?p=163"},"modified":"2013-01-14T12:24:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T17:24:54","slug":"daycare-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/daycare-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"daycare rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Somehow, I have become two people. There is the adult version of me, as I am now. And there is the teenaged version of me. <\/em><\/p>\n

Together, we are plotting to rescue my youngest daughter from her daycare. The details of why she needs rescuing aren\u2019t explained but, armed to the teeth and sick with worry, we make our plans.<\/p>\n

(Even in my dream, the proximity of guns and children disturbs me. My younger self tries to reason with my older self, to convince him that it\u2019s better to go to the police. But he\/I refused.)<\/p>\n

We sneak into the school one night \u2014 something else that isn\u2019t explained, why it\u2019s nighttime \u2014 doing our best to bluff our way past the receptionist. Explaining why there are two of us is difficult. <\/p>\n

My older self is relieved when my teenage self says \u201cI\u2019m her older brother\u201d \u2014 good thinking, kid.<\/p>\n

We do our best to keep the guns hidden as we make our way through the halls. But one of the kids sees the sawed off shotgun my younger self carries under his\/my trenchcoat and we\u2019re off to the races. <\/p>\n

Teachers and parents and children scramble everywhere in a panic. With the police on the way, we rush into a classroom and get my\/our daughter out safely. No one has been hurt, no one has been caught.<\/p>\n

But back at the house, the police are waiting \u2014 painting the cheap stucco walls of our neighborhood with screams of blue and red.<\/p>\n

My older self says \u201cTake care of her for me...\u201d leaving my younger self to hold onto his\/our daughter while he\/I (the older version of me) leads the cops away. He doesn\u2019t get far. And neither do we.<\/p>\n

It is terrifying, stressful, and heartbreaking. And I am relieved when I wake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Somehow, I have become two people. There is the adult version of me, as I am now. And there is the teenaged version of me.  Together, we are plotting to rescue my youngest daughter from her daycare. The details of why she needs rescuing aren\u2019t explained but, armed to the teeth and sick with worry, we [\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":[219,54,222,52,154,213,226,224,223,221,93,37,214,218,220,225,217,215,216],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams","tag-alarms","tag-children","tag-classrooms","tag-crime","tag-daughter","tag-daycare","tag-doppelgangers","tag-escape","tag-fear","tag-hallways","tag-night","tag-panic","tag-parents","tag-police","tag-school","tag-self","tag-shotgun","tag-teenager","tag-trenchcoat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","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=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}