{"id":3620,"date":"2025-12-01T00:56:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3620"},"modified":"2025-12-01T00:56:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:56:51","slug":"thanksgiving-dreamed-my-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3620","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Dreamed My Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4841-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4841-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3621\" style=\"width:547px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4841-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4841-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4841-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4841-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4841-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The poem I\u2019m wrestling with <br \/>wrestled with me all week.<br \/>My dreamlife gave me these ideas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That pungent vinaigrette in the little dish:<br \/>pour the rest over the poem.\u00a0<br \/>It will taste delicious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Push that boulder which is also a word<br \/>over the poem\u2019s hillside.<br \/>See how much moss, grass and other worlds it gathers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read this dream article on your subject.  <br \/>We offer you your essential point, in dream <br \/> language.  Use it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That shovel. On the blackish background.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>In the center.\u00a0\u00a0Here, you.\u00a0\u00a0Dreamer, poet, person.\u00a0<br \/>Start digging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The poem I\u2019m wrestling with wrestled with me all week.My dreamlife gave me these ideas: That pungent vinaigrette in the little dish:pour the rest over the poem.\u00a0It will taste delicious. Push that boulder which is also a wordover the poem\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3620\">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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1692,1325,138,1693,1115,1694],"class_list":["post-3620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dreamwork","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-synesthesia","tag-unconscious","tag-writers-block"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-Wo","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3622,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions\/3622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}