{"id":1649,"date":"2015-12-11T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2015-12-11T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T00:01:00","slug":"a-friday-for-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2015\/12\/11\/a-friday-for-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"A Friday for thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like my day started feeling like this:<\/p>\n<p>and now it feels like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><i>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153All men dream; but not equally.<br \/>\nThose who dream by night in the dusty<br \/>\nrecesses of their minds<br \/>\nAwake to find that it was vanity;<br \/>\nBut the dreamers of day are dangerous men.<br \/>\nThat they may act their dreams with open<br \/>\neyes to make it possible.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>T. E. Lawrence (aka Lawrence of Arabia)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s just all about perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like my day started feeling like this: and now it feels like this: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds Awake to find that it was vanity; But the dreamers of day are dangerous men. That they may act their dreams with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"A Friday for thoughts","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQyAq-qB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1202,"url":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2014\/05\/25\/micky-sees-the-dream\/","url_meta":{"origin":1649,"position":0},"title":"Micky sees the dream :-)","date":"May 25, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Today we lived out the best of being homeowners in the Sunset. We woke up, and the kids sat in our bed, and watched cartoons. When we finally woke ourselves up, we got dressed, and headed to breakfast. But not in any old way. 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