{"id":898,"date":"2015-09-14T13:21:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T20:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/?p=898"},"modified":"2015-09-14T13:21:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T20:21:39","slug":"everywhere-and-nowhere-to-be-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/?p=898","title":{"rendered":"Everywhere And Nowhere To Be Found."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeopardy answer:<br \/>\nFrom the Welsh elements &#8220;great&#8221; and &#8220;tide, flow&#8221;. In Welsh mythology he was a god or hero associated with the sea.  <\/p>\n<p>I recently had a dream about Dylan.  He wasn&#8217;t in my dream, but I could feel him.  He was in the other room.  The house was warm.  Comfortable.  It was home.  For a moment.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody came to the door.  A teen aged girl was trying to get kids signed up for soccer.  She asked if we had any girls who might interested.  I told her that Marisa played quite a few years ago and seemed to be pretty good, but she chose to dance instead.  The girl smiled and said &#8220;Okay, well thank you for your time.&#8221; and started to walk away.  <\/p>\n<p>I told her to wait.  Then, for some reason, I said, &#8220;I think my son might be interested.&#8221;  Next thing I know, I am holding a piece of paper and pencil to supposedly be signing him up or adding him to a list.  I looked down at the piece of paper, really a 5&#215;7 card, and there was only the number 18 written largely on it.  And I am going over and over the 8 of the 18 that takes ups nearly the whole card.  Everything felt right until I held that card in my hand.  Then, I said to the girl, &#8220;What am I thinking?  I am sorry. My son is 18.  He is too old to sign up.&#8221;  Without another word, the girl turn away and I closed the front door.<\/p>\n<p>The warmth was gone.  The comfort lost.  I stood in living room using wall to support myself while I cried uncontrollably until I felt nauseous and as if somebody had sucker punched me in the gut.<\/p>\n<p>Again.<\/p>\n<p>Without hesitation.<br \/>\nQuestion:  Who is Dylan?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeopardy answer: From the Welsh elements &#8220;great&#8221; and &#8220;tide, flow&#8221;. In Welsh mythology he was a god or hero associated with the sea. I recently had a dream about Dylan. He wasn&#8217;t in my dream, but I could feel him. He was in the other room. The house was warm. Comfortable. It was home. For &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/?p=898\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Everywhere And Nowhere To Be Found.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}