{"id":316,"date":"2011-12-22T10:17:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T09:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/?p=316"},"modified":"2011-12-22T10:17:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T09:17:17","slug":"you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/22\/you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"You are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning with Lionel Ritchie&#8217;s &#8220;You are&#8221; playing in my head (actually, I might have dreamt it as well). And as I usually have once in a long while, I had that dream where I was actually able to fly (with people just a few feet below looking on in wonder). It usually feels so real. And no, I am not an Ogbanje (why do I think of &#8220;Koku Baboni&#8221;?). I think it&#8217;s just my desire deep down in real life that&#8217;s filtering into my subconcious state. Flying has always been\u00a0at the top list of my things-i-wish-i-could-do (not in Heaven or the hereafter &#8211; now!). Most def, once I get behind those pearly gates (hopefully!) and I recieve\u00a0&#8220;that&#8221; magnificient welcome,\u00a0greet the Great One and The Son, pay obeisance to those who were there before me such as my Dad, Uncles, Aunts, family, friends, etc, the first thing I would probably ask for\u00a0is &#8220;gimme those wings!&#8221;\u00a0(actually, I would prefer to be able to fly without actual wings on my back &#8211; it&#8217;s just another encumbrance &#8211; unless of course I can wish it away at whim &#8211; I am one of those people that if I could get away without wearing even a watch, I had do it &#8211; and I frequently do now since I can always tell the time from my phone)<\/p>\n<p>After I got up, I found that at intervals I\u00a0suddenly burst into singing just the part &#8220;&#8230; you are &#8230;\u00a0I don&#8217;t mind, I don&#8217;t mind &#8230;&#8221;. Well, after a few of these singing bursts, I decided I might as well play the song and hear it from the horse&#8217;s mouth. So I am playing it currently. May be I will repeat it a few times \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning with Lionel Ritchie&#8217;s &#8220;You are&#8221; playing in my head (actually, I might have dreamt it as well). And as I usually have once in a long while, I had that dream where I was actually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/22\/you-are\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}