{"id":432,"date":"2016-04-12T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=432"},"modified":"2016-04-12T09:00:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T13:00:57","slug":"labyrinth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"Labyrinth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Labyrinth-28.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-435\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-435\" src=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Labyrinth-28-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"Labyrinth-28\" width=\"548\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Labyrinth-28-300x229.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Labyrinth-28-768x586.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Labyrinth-28-1024x782.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Labyrinth-28.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 His dreams were frantic.\u00a0 She was always just-out-of-reach and each time he caught a glimpse, she was further away than before as he chased her through the labyrinth of his anxiety.\u00a0 He KNEW he was only dreaming&#8230;\u00a0 he KNEW she lay right next to him, asleep&#8230;but he could neither escape any more than catch up to her.\u00a0 And as his heart broke apart and crumbled to pieces for the one he had loved unconditionally, he realized that these pathetic dreams were better than his reality.\u00a0 This was all he had left, so he relished in the chase each night&#8230;..for just one more night&#8230;and tried to remember all the good things they&#8217;d had for a few precious moments more&#8230;before she faded completely, leaving him alone in the labyrinth.<\/p>\n<p><em>***Our poor friend Balthazar lost his cat recently&#8230;well, she&#8217;s not missing &#8211; we&#8217;re not out searching or anything &#8211; I mean, he had a falling out with his precious\u00a0Miss Fuzzy Britches a few weeks ago and hasn&#8217;t been able to patch things up.\u00a0 I wrote this little piece for them&#8230;though I don&#8217;t hold out much hope.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Our new book is out.\u00a0 Its beautiful and awful and available by following the link at the top\/right to our site;\u00a0 www.sallemander.com .\u00a0 -Marsha<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 His dreams were frantic.\u00a0 She was always just-out-of-reach and each time he caught a glimpse, she was further away than before as he chased her through the labyrinth of his anxiety.\u00a0 He KNEW he was only dreaming&#8230;\u00a0 he KNEW she lay right next to him, asleep&#8230;but he could neither escape any more than catch &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=432\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Labyrinth<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[150],"tags":[128,99,180,177,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}