{"id":50,"date":"2004-05-10T08:54:43","date_gmt":"2004-05-10T12:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/2004\/05\/10\/good-guest\/"},"modified":"2004-05-10T08:54:43","modified_gmt":"2004-05-10T12:54:43","slug":"good-guest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/2004\/05\/10\/good-guest\/","title":{"rendered":"good guest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a34'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>  The bus I&#8217;m traveling on is passing through a bookshop ample enough to accommodate traffic. A large sign indicates an opera section. I&#8217;m uncertain how close I am to my destination but what I see on display is so seductive, I get off anyway. Something, I don&#8217;t remember what, thwarts my intention of acquiring new volumes. (Perhaps, in a Kierkegaardian mode, I discover it is the sign itself that is for sale?) I&#8217;m not especially dejected; being in the shop is in itself exhilarating.<br \/>\n  When I arrive home, I have an unexpected visitor waiting for me, an affable, dark  haired man with a moustache, slightly older than me. Even in the dream I know I haven&#8217;t met him before (I think he&#8217;s a friend of a friend) but I take an instant liking to him. The fellow tells me he&#8217;s blind (I sense this is a very recent and temporary affliction or perhaps I even suspect him of faking it) and asks me to read him a certain story. I open up the book and begin reading to him. It&#8217;s a violent detective story but it also teaches me a lot about Beethoven. Further, (shades of Michael Ende!) it appears to be writing itself as I go along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bus I&#8217;m traveling on is passing through a bookshop ample enough to accommodate traffic. A large sign indicates an opera section. I&#8217;m uncertain how close I am to my destination but what I see on display is so seductive, I get off anyway. Something, I don&#8217;t remember what, thwarts my intention of acquiring new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1500],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}