{"id":2729,"date":"2009-03-18T07:08:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T11:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2009-03-13T11:08:52","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T15:08:52","slug":"try-not-to-think-about-these-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=2729","title":{"rendered":"Try Not to Think About These Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently Zan did a list entitled, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatcupoftea.com\/2009\/02\/things-i-sometimes-imagine-against-my.html\">Things I Sometimes Imagine Against My Will<\/a>,&#8221; and Maggie followed up with a similar <a href=\"http:\/\/mightygirl.com\/2009\/03\/03\/going-to-my-happy-place\/\">list of her own<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the zombies and portals to another world, Zan&#8217;s list is fairly rooted in reality.  Maggie&#8217;s is a little closer to the kinds of things that spring, unbidden, to my mind in unguarded moments (especially the hand-under-the-bed one).  I can think of a few others that give me the blithering fantods, too:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Glancing out the bedroom door to see something large and humanoid scuttling up the stairs.<\/li>\n<li>Riding on a funicular and feeling a lurch as the cable snaps.<\/li>\n<li>As I pass the row of stuffed toys in my son&#8217;s room, they turn their heads to watch me.<\/li>\n<li>Washing dishes, looking up to find a stranger with crazed eyes staring at me through the kitchen window.<\/li>\n<li>Falling into a hole to another dimension, being unable to get back out.<\/li>\n<li>Waking up at night to find a shadowy figure standing at the foot of the bed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What are some of yours?  Unburden your psyche in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently Zan did a list entitled, &#8220;Things I Sometimes Imagine Against My Will,&#8221; and Maggie followed up with a similar list of her own. Aside from the zombies and portals to another world, Zan&#8217;s list is fairly rooted in reality. Maggie&#8217;s is a little closer to the kinds of things that spring, unbidden, to my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2813,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions\/2813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}