{"id":5136,"date":"2023-04-01T04:13:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T04:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/?p=5136"},"modified":"2023-03-31T13:22:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T13:22:12","slug":"tales-from-the-town-103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/2023\/04\/01\/tales-from-the-town-103\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales From The Town #103: A Dream Of The Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/dreamofthewatch001s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/dreamofthewatch001s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"425\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/dreamofthewatch001s.jpg 300w, https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/dreamofthewatch001s-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Antoine opens his eyes and wonders what the time is. He looks at his watch. Or where his watch would have been if he still had a watch, if he hadn&#8217;t lost it in the woods years ago, if it was still on his wrist and the numbers still glowed like tiny green phosphor stars in the gloom of the cave. <\/p>\n<p>He lies back down, closes his eyes, begins to dream. In his dream, he opens his eyes and wonders what the time is.<\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<p>1. <em>Written on March 20th, 2023<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Support An Accumulation Of Things<\/a><\/h3><i>If you like the things you've read here please consider subscribing to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">patreon<\/a> or my <a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davidnguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ko-fi<\/a>. <\/br><\/br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patreon subscribers<\/a> get not just early access to content and also the occasional gift, but also my eternal gratitude. Which I'm not sure is very useful, but is certainly very real.<\/br><\/br>(<a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davidnguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ko-fi contributors<\/a> probably only get the gratitude I'm afraid, but please get in touch if you want more). <\/br><\/br>Thank you!<\/i><\/br><\/br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antoine opens his eyes and wonders what the time is. He looks at his watch. Or where his watch would have been if he still had a watch, if he hadn&#8217;t lost it in the woods years ago, if it was still on his wrist and the numbers still glowed like tiny green phosphor stars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[15,1209,1439],"class_list":["post-5136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tales-from-the-town","tag-dreams","tag-tales-from-the-town","tag-watches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5136"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5195,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions\/5195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}