{"id":181,"date":"2025-04-21T07:22:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T12:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:22:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T12:22:59","slug":"napowrimo-2025-day-21-iwl-in-waking-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/21\/napowrimo-2025-day-21-iwl-in-waking-life\/","title":{"rendered":"NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 21: IWL (In Waking Life)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>IWL (In Waking Life)<\/strong><br><br>I know that a night terror is<br>a night terror when I&#8217;m there. I know<br>also that I&#8217;m in my bed,<br>which faces the wrong way,<br>in my room, which is too small,<br>and that I am I,<br>but maybe younger.<br>I know the evil thing<br>waiting for me to move<br>is not real, but my dread is.<br>Waking, I know my country<br>faces the wrong way,<br>believes it&#8217;s growing<br>as it steadily shrinks.<br>I don&#8217;t know who we are,<br>but the evil that moves<br>among us is real.<br>I don&#8217;t know how to fight it.<br>I don&#8217;t know how I can&#8217;t.<br>I know our yard&#8217;s full of birds<br>and flowers, even blackberries;<br>our neighbors&#8217;, of hens and carrots.<br>I don&#8217;t know how,<br>but this gives me courage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2014 Carl Bettis<\/em><br><em>2025-04-21<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 21)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 21: &#8220;IWL (In Waking Life)&#8221; by Carl Bettis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,7],"tags":[11,12,10],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-napowrimo","category-napowrimo-2025","category-poetry","tag-napowrimo","tag-napowrimo-2025","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}