{"id":27086,"date":"2024-01-30T07:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T07:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=27086"},"modified":"2024-01-30T19:19:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T19:19:23","slug":"arrias-and-his-muse-wide-awake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/arrias-and-his-muse-wide-awake\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrias and His Muse: Wide Awake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/arrias_muse1.png\" width=\"214\" height=\"288\" \/>Author&#8217;s Note: And the Muse appeared in my morning in Tidewater- it would make a good start for a Neil Simon play\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Arrias<br \/>\nWide Awake<\/p>\n<p>It all started with a very strange dream,<br \/>\nBut no beautiful maiden and a dragon,<br \/>\nJust me and an old Navy buddy,<br \/>\nCans of caviar and a station wagon.<\/p>\n<p>And now I\u2019m so very tired,<br \/>\nMy back hurts, my leg is damp,<br \/>\nI think the puppy wet the bed,<br \/>\nNow my right leg has a cramp.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s still very, very dark,<br \/>\nThe morning paper is 2 hours away,<br \/>\nWalk the puppies, give them food,<br \/>\n3 hours \u2018till break of day!<\/p>\n<p>Sheets are in the washer, shave and shower,<br \/>\nRead my e-mails with a mug of tea,<br \/>\nDressed and ready for Church,<br \/>\nAll by half-past three!<\/p>\n<p>If only I had a good excuse,<br \/>\nOut ragin\u2019 in the Hood!<br \/>\nMe with old Navy buddies, But\u2026<br \/>\nWas just another Saturday night in the wood!<\/p>\n<p>And now it\u2019s very early Sunday,<br \/>\nNo wild stories did I make,<br \/>\nI\u2019m without any outrageous excuses,<br \/>\nI\u2019m just tired and wide awake!<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2024 Arrias<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author&#8217;s Note: And the Muse appeared in my morning in Tidewater- it would make a good start for a Neil Simon play\u2026 &#8211; Arrias Wide Awake It all started with a very strange dream, But no beautiful maiden and a dragon, Just me and an old Navy buddy, Cans of caviar and a station wagon. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27087,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27086\/revisions\/27087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}