{"id":150,"date":"2005-12-15T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T13:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/?p=150"},"modified":"2007-12-30T21:17:57","modified_gmt":"2007-12-30T11:17:57","slug":"ice-cream-flavours-and-personal-bests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/12\/15\/ice-cream-flavours-and-personal-bests\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice-Cream Flavours and Personal Bests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>As I sat on my living room floor, a strange woman with bedraggled hair came up to the glass back door. She simply opened it without knocking and started striding in. &#8220;Who are you?&#8221; I demanded, while the woman&#8230; wait on, it was a man. I looked more closely at the face but I couldn&#8217;t seem to focus on it. What was going on here? I must be dreaming! &#8220;Wake up!  Wake up!&#8221; I yelled.<\/em> My eyes flicked open and adjusted to my dark bedroom.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, I wouldn&#8217;t blog about dreams. No-one really cares. This dream, though, I was proud of.  I had had the fastest nightmare ever. The perceived elapsed time from the start of the dream to my eyes being open was only about three or four seconds.  If I could efficiently detect bad dreams, then I could avoid any extended nightmares  and spend most of sleep-period enjoying more pleasant dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, I had another dream. <em>I was standing in front of the ice-cream counter, and a man asked me what flavour I would like. I replied &#8220;Seafood Extender&#8221;.<\/em> My eyes flicked open wide in horror at the thought.<\/p>\n<p>Two seconds! A new personal best!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I sat on my living room floor, a strange woman with bedraggled hair came up to the glass back door. She simply opened it without knocking and started striding in. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,41],"tags":[106,212,152],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-based-on-a-true-story","category-story-telling","tag-anecdote","tag-dream","tag-ice-cream"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}