{"id":849,"date":"2012-03-21T12:18:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T12:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/?p=849"},"modified":"2015-03-26T07:12:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T07:12:45","slug":"the-other-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/the-other-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by<a title=\"The Other Mother\" href=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=377&amp;action=edit\"> Alyssa Anne Westgate<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I dreamt a dream<br \/>\n-within a dream-<br \/>\nabout my mother<br \/>\n(she wasn\u2019t really<br \/>\nmy mother-you know how<br \/>\ndreams are)<br \/>\nI ran in terror<br \/>\nfrom the evil<br \/>\nhands,<br \/>\nthe words that<br \/>\ncatch like tiger\u2019s claws,<br \/>\nchoking the heart.<br \/>\nI ran as fast<br \/>\nas I could<br \/>\nmy legs started<br \/>\nto move<br \/>\nlike<br \/>\nweightless<br \/>\nanchors<br \/>\n(as they always do-<br \/>\nyou know how<br \/>\ndreams are)<br \/>\nshe came bounding<br \/>\naround the path<br \/>\nI knew she would<br \/>\ndo that.<br \/>\nI suddenly stopped<br \/>\nI woke from the dream<br \/>\nwithin a dream.<br \/>\nSuddenly she stopped.<br \/>\nI knew that<br \/>\nI had her now,<br \/>\nthe dreamer was<br \/>\nawake<br \/>\nI said \u201cyou are not my mother\u201d<br \/>\nshe said<br \/>\n\u201cyou think that?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI know that\u201d<br \/>\nI hissed.<br \/>\nA male figure<br \/>\ncrept across the background<br \/>\nescaped from sight;<br \/>\nperhaps gone for good?<br \/>\nI was holding onto this<br \/>\nstate,<br \/>\nI felt I was losing the fight<br \/>\nthen I woke<br \/>\nfrom the dream,<br \/>\nto this dream,<br \/>\nmy blood frozen<br \/>\nin my veins;<br \/>\nI had called someone out.<br \/>\nI had gotten a victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alyssa Anne Westgate I dreamt a dream -within a dream- about my mother (she wasn\u2019t really my mother-you know how dreams are) I ran in terror from the evil hands, the words that catch like tiger\u2019s claws, choking the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/the-other-mother\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-edition","category-previous-editions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}