[This is directly transcribed, without changes or edits, from a journal entry dated May 4th, 2003]<\/p>\n
...and as I\u2019m walking through the parking lot towards my car, I see two guys approaching \u2014 I make eye contact, just to established that they know that I know they\u2019re there . . . One of them nods and says \u201cHow\u2019s it going?\u201d And I realize that I am in trouble. They\u2019re both heavier than I am, and they move with a raw plodding strength that I do not possess and cannot hope to match \u2014 Like an idiot, I\u2019ve parked on the far side of the lot. The other cars are very far away and a few people are moving in the darkened a lot.<\/em><\/p>\n As I said, they\u2019re big and they spread out a bit, drawing my focus first one way and then the other. I exchange words with the smaller of the two, can\u2019t remember now what was said but things escalate and I realize that I\u2019m not looking at a typical robbery \u2014 These guys are looking for someone to be and I\u2019m more than convenient.<\/p>\n Bad news for me.<\/p>\n And this is the strange thing\u2026 I don\u2019t remember how I got away from them but I did.<\/p>\n I remember shouting to a group of people who were standing in a pool of light 100 yards away\u2026 I remember leaving my car behind \u2014 perhaps Iran?<\/p>\n At any rate, I get away and at least one thing sank in \u2014 I wasn\u2019t clear of them. They\u2019d be waiting for me when I went back for my car.<\/p>\n The next day is Sunday and I am at church \u2014 not my real church but one of those awful Seeker churches tucked away in an industrial park behind a Sam\u2019s Club and a warehouse.<\/p>\n And then everything gets murky. The dream went on for much longer, but it just didn\u2019t stay with me long enough to capture it here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [This is directly transcribed, without changes or edits, from a journal entry dated May 4th, 2003] ...and as I\u2019m walking through the parking lot towards my car, I see two guys approaching \u2014 I make eye contact, just to established that they know that I know they\u2019re there . . . One of them nods and [\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":[132,448,52,224,449,93,175,447,444,445,451],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams","tag-cars","tag-church","tag-crime","tag-escape","tag-industrial-park","tag-night","tag-parking-lots","tag-running","tag-street-lights","tag-thugs","tag-warehouses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","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=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}