{"id":522,"date":"2007-01-05T10:02:46","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T17:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=522"},"modified":"2013-07-28T12:25:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T19:25:08","slug":"a-travelers-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/05\/a-travelers-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"A Traveler&#8217;s Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/IMG\/BlogPhotos\/barge.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"462\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I had a rather complicated dream last night &#8211; I&#8217;ll spare you most of the details about cell phones made of paper and giant kitchen sundries so&#8217;s not to be one of those people that goes on and on about their dreams. The bit I want to share, though, may be wishful prophesying.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the dream, in a sort of &#8220;many years later&#8221; mood, I was living on barge with my sweetheart. It&#8217;s what we did for a living &#8211; he was a river barge captain, we delivered freight via the canals of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care much for boats because I get seasick and am a little claustrophobic, but I was comfortable on the barge because it was roomy and conditions were seldom rough. We had a nice cabin and a good kitchen and there were lots of windows. I was very content because while I was always off to somewhere new, I was also always at home.<\/p>\n<p>Time for a career change?<\/p>\n<p>[tags]wishful thinking, river barge travel[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a rather complicated dream last night &#8211; I&#8217;ll spare you most of the details about cell phones made of paper and giant kitchen sundries so&#8217;s not to be one of those people that goes on and on about their dreams. The bit I want to share, though, may be wishful prophesying. At the &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"A Traveler&#8217;s Dream\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/05\/a-travelers-dream\/#more-522\" aria-label=\"Read more about A Traveler&#8217;s Dream\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elsewhere","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8044,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/8044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}