{"id":4012,"date":"2019-05-09T14:20:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T18:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/?p=4012"},"modified":"2019-05-13T13:59:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T17:59:06","slug":"dotties-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/dotties-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Dottie&#8217;s Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May, 2019<\/p>\n<p><em>So in my dream I am at a reunion on campus, showing a much younger alum the far end of campus where I tell her I lived in both Buckland and Abbey. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But I am there searching for the hospital where I am about to give birth!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But I also know I am about to be surprised with an 80th birthday party!&nbsp; And I don&#8217;t want to ruin everybody&#8217;s fun making it happen!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But I really need to find the hospital!&nbsp; So there is Liz Hottel Barrett to help me. (And in real life when we were Girl Scouts at an overnight in Winchester&#8217;s Fels park I did get &#8220;surprised &#8221; which Liz might or might not remember.)&nbsp; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Then I wake up, grinning, because I am almost 80, in my 30&#8217;s and 12 all in the same dream. And something new and exciting &#8212; a baby certainly is that &#8212; is about to happen!<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Such is the power of dreaming. <\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May, 2019 So in my dream I am at a reunion on campus, showing a much younger alum the far end of campus where I tell her I lived in both Buckland and Abbey. But I am there searching for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/dotties-dream\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25026],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}