{"id":12981,"date":"2008-06-26T08:32:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T12:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12981"},"modified":"2014-01-16T16:06:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T21:06:36","slug":"on-the-road-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/26\/on-the-road-again\/","title":{"rendered":"On the road again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a dream this morning in which I was in an unnamed, unidentifiable foreign country.   I was teamed with Donald O&#8217;Connor, who bore the same physical appearance as he did in <i>Singing in the Rain<\/i>, and Robert Silverberg, who looked exactly like he does today.<\/p>\n<p>We were in a marketplace, similar to what you&#8217;d see in a film like <i>Casablanca<\/i>. The three of us were circled around a life-sized, hollow cardboard mock-up of a car. For some reason that never became completely clear, it was very important that we convince someone who was about to show up that this was a real, functional car.  So I crouched down and hid behind a rear tire (a <i>cardboard<\/i> rear tire), while Donald and Bob  showed off the car and I made automobile noises as best as I could.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m no Mel Blanc, so unfortunately, my attempt was rather pathetic and I wasn&#8217;t very successful in my part of this ruse. Luckily, I woke before I discovered what would happen if we failed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a dream this morning in which I was in an unnamed, unidentifiable foreign country. I was teamed with Donald O&#8217;Connor, who bore the same physical appearance as he did in Singing in the Rain, and Robert Silverberg, who looked exactly like he does today. We were in a marketplace, similar to what you&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,392],"class_list":["post-12981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dreams","tag-robert-silverberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12982,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12981\/revisions\/12982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}