{"id":2730,"date":"2017-02-10T23:12:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T03:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2017-03-02T15:17:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T19:17:13","slug":"we-are-all-tigers-in-our-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=2730","title":{"rendered":"We Are All Tigers in Our Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a garish, orange and pink comforter he lays down to take a nap before watching playoff football. His head rests on a fluffy white pillow. As if on cue\u00a0his cats, Quiet Rustle and Felix, jump up on the bed to join him. Felix curls up under his arm, and Quiet Rustle settles on his stomach. Besides a snooze before football, they are practicing as a three-man sleeping team for the Slumber Olympics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/cropped-20170122_151924.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2754\" src=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/cropped-20170122_151924-300x120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/cropped-20170122_151924-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/cropped-20170122_151924-768x306.jpg 768w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/cropped-20170122_151924.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Together, they drift off to sleep and\u00a0dream the same dream.\u00a0 Quiet Rustle and Felix\u00a0are\u00a0 tigers\u00a0playing in the pounding, blue\u00a0surf on a dazzling\u00a0white beach. The Human dreams he is standing in the shade of banyan tree, watching the tigers play.\u00a0Suddenly, he looks down in astonishment\u00a0to realize he\u00a0is a tiger now\u00a0too.\u00a0 With joy, he runs onto the beach\u00a0to play with his trusty friends in the breaking waves.<\/p>\n<p>Because we are all tigers in our dreams.<\/p>\n<p><em>copyright 2017 Christopher Donahue<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a garish, orange and pink comforter he lays down to take a nap before watching playoff football. His head rests on a fluffy white pillow. As if on cue\u00a0his cats, Quiet Rustle and Felix, jump up on the bed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=2730\">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-2730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2779,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions\/2779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}