{"id":3207,"date":"2018-08-05T12:48:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T20:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=3207"},"modified":"2018-08-06T15:00:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T23:00:24","slug":"authors-dream-or-a-real-scene-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=3207","title":{"rendered":"Author&#8217;s Dream, Or A Real Scene (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author\u2019s Dream, Or A Real Scene? (Part 2)<\/p>\n<p>The author was working on his latest book.<br \/>\nIt was getting dark when the windows shook.<br \/>\nHe heard: \u201cI am back. The enemy is coming.\u201d<br \/>\nHe was back in Thanos&#8217;s castle,\u00a0 &amp; Thanos was running.<br \/>\n\u201cQuick, I will erect your protective shield.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cYou don\u2019t have to worry. It will not yield.\u201d<br \/>\nHe had me stand, looking out over the yard.<br \/>\nI felt surrounded by something hard.<br \/>\nI couldn\u2019t see it, but I knew it was there.<br \/>\nI could feel the static in my hair.<br \/>\nSoon, wizards came into the courtyard.<br \/>\nThey had wands and were chanting hard.<br \/>\nA red flash shot across the scene.<br \/>\nA shield glowed around the hit being.<br \/>\nThe wizard fired back with a blue flash.<br \/>\nAt the gate, the perpetrator jumped back.<br \/>\nA wooden beam split and fell over.<br \/>\nRock fell on an evil wizard, the size of a bolder.<br \/>\nThey had to drop their shields to fire.<br \/>\nIf hit then, they became a live wire.<br \/>\nOne wizard fired and was hit by a spell.<br \/>\nHe immediately gave out a yell.<br \/>\nThen, he was clucking &amp; scratching like a chicken.<br \/>\nThe spell had apparently gave him a lickin.<br \/>\nThe fight continued, spells flying back &amp; forth.<br \/>\nWizard\u2019s fire flew, lighting up the court.<br \/>\nThen, the wizards, in sequence, created a scene.<br \/>\nThe greatest fireworks I\u2019d ever seen.<br \/>\nEvil wizards were screaming &amp; running everywhere.<br \/>\nThere was static electricity in the air.<br \/>\nIt was so bright, I had to cover my eyes.<br \/>\nWhen I opened them, I was surprised.<br \/>\nI was back at my desk and fireworks were going off.<br \/>\nIt was the 4th of July. Many fireworks were aloft.<br \/>\nI could easily see them out of my window.<br \/>\nThe fairgrounds was a stone&#8217;s throw below.<br \/>\nHad I been asleep again? Was it a dream?<br \/>\nIt seemed so real, the entire scene.<br \/>\nHe would use the scene in his book.<br \/>\nBeyond that, he didn\u2019t want a second look.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-R.W. Johnson&#8212;&#8211;(2018)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author\u2019s Dream, Or A Real Scene? (Part 2) The author was working on his latest book. It was getting dark when the windows shook. He heard: \u201cI am back. The enemy is coming.\u201d He was back in Thanos&#8217;s castle,\u00a0 &amp; Thanos was running. \u201cQuick, I will erect your protective shield.\u201d \u201cYou don\u2019t have to worry. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=3207\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Author&#8217;s Dream, Or A Real Scene (Part 2)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-free-bird-poetry","category-medieval","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3214,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions\/3214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}