{"id":5263,"date":"2012-01-24T08:38:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T13:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=5263"},"modified":"2012-01-24T08:42:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T13:42:12","slug":"dreaming-of-neil-gaiman-jamie-callis-and-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/24\/dreaming-of-neil-gaiman-jamie-callis-and-the-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming of Neil Gaiman, James Callis, and The Question"},"content":{"rendered":"

I usually tweet my dreams, but I was visited by two last night which could not be contained in 140 characters.<\/p>\n

First …<\/p>\n

I dreamt I was in prison, presumably on some sort of cultural or educational visit, because when alarms went off and the place went into lockdown, I was hustled into a small library-like room, and once I got there I found the same had been done with Neil Gaiman and a woman I didn’t recognize.<\/p>\n

As the three of us waited for the emergency to be declared over, a gate popped open, and I knew that wasn’t a good thing, because it would allow the rioting prisoners to reach us. But before that could happen, we were rescued by The Question.<\/p>\n

After saving us, I showed him that I had a souvenir pen with his name on it in my jacket pocket. I told him I was a big fan of his. He said he was a fan on mine, too, and liked my zombie stories. I woke as we discussed the aftermath of what had occurred.<\/p>\n

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Then …<\/p>\n

I dreamt a serial killer was leaving corpses around town covered with magic marker taunts, and a friend of mine and I grew convinced that the culprit was James Callis. (Not Callis himself, but rather a character being portrayed by him in the dream.) So when I received a phone call telling me where I could find evidence of his guilt, we hurried off to a college classroom, inside of which I saw Callis. I pulled out my gun, ready to confront him.<\/p>\n

But just as I was about to enter the room, I saw him approached by someone else, a man who began to write all over Callis with a magic marker, and I realized I’d been wrong, and the real murderer was going to kill him<\/em> and pin it on me<\/em> so I’d stop meddling!<\/p>\n

So I shot the murderer to stop him from killing Callis, but he still tried to get away, so I handcuffed him, but then he somehow found the key, and as I shouted for my friend to phone the police, I wrapped the guy tightly in a blanket so he couldn’t move.<\/p>\n

When I looked around, Callis was gone, and I thought … uh-oh, this isn’t good. I realized it was the old switcheroo, and Callis was really was<\/em> the murderer after all. It was a set-up, and the police would find me having shot an innocent man. I woke before they arrived and I could be arrested …<\/p>\n

(Yes, my dream world is that<\/em> exciting.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I usually tweet my dreams, but I was visited by two last night which could not be contained in 140 characters. First … I dreamt I was in prison, presumably on some sort of cultural or educational visit, because when alarms went off and the place went into lockdown, I was hustled into a small […]<\/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":[12,147,145],"class_list":["post-5263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dreams","tag-james-callis","tag-neil-gaiman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263","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=5263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}