{"id":4061,"date":"2010-12-19T07:21:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T12:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4061"},"modified":"2012-04-14T17:24:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T22:24:05","slug":"and-i-dreamed-my-little-dreamy-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4061","title":{"rendered":"And I dreamed my little dreamy dreams."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I woke up at utter peace with the world. <\/p>\n<p>I had spent who knows how long dreaming I had qualified as a Corrector.  See, in my dream world, Correctors had a little button they wore on a chain around their neck, and anytime they overheard someone saying something stupid, they could push the button, and that person would experience a momentary sense of irrational fear. Or you could chose electric shock to the genitalia. <\/p>\n<p>As a corrector, you  could also use a sap. Because of the danger of accidents, you couldn&#8217;t use it on people driving, but you could pull them over and &#8220;correct&#8221; them. <\/p>\n<p>You became a &#8220;Corrector&#8221; by passing a test given by William F Buckley. <\/p>\n<p>I have never been so happy in my life. <\/p>\n<p>And then I woke up. <\/p>\n<p>Sonofabitch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I woke up at utter peace with the world. I had spent who knows how long dreaming I had qualified as a Corrector. See, in my dream world, Correctors had a little button they wore on a chain around their neck, and anytime they overheard someone saying something stupid, they could push the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}