{"id":2527,"date":"2007-12-10T02:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T02:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2007\/12\/10\/let-our-bodies-hit-the-floor\/"},"modified":"2007-12-10T02:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T02:58:00","slug":"let-our-bodies-hit-the-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2007\/12\/10\/let-our-bodies-hit-the-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"let our bodies hit the floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><lj-embed id=\"44\" \/><\/center>This was our favourite video this trip. Mike would start singing the chorus and that would be it &#8211; whatever we were talking about would dissolve into laughter. Politics, music, movies, it didn&#8217;t matter &#8211; we were lost. The fanaticism fascinates us, illusionists, the passionate power of suggestion, how much it can affect the body, how many of these so-called healers are debunked only to return ten years later on television, selling <i><strike out=\"out\">snake oil<\/strike><\/i> holy water in little plastic bottles for $15 each. He bent a spoon for me over a two:thirty a.m. Husky truck-stop breakfast, expertly rubbing the handle with his thumb, making fun with a Uri Geller trick we both know enough to especially love. My smile at that moment was worth the plane ticket, right there. I felt my writing return. The price of admission paid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was our favourite video this trip. Mike would start singing the chorus and that would be it &#8211; whatever we were talking about would dissolve into laughter. Politics, music, movies, it didn&#8217;t matter &#8211; we were lost. The fanaticism fascinates us, illusionists, the passionate power of suggestion, how much it can affect the body, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2007\/12\/10\/let-our-bodies-hit-the-floor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;let our bodies hit the floor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1512,108,1404],"class_list":["post-2527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-calgary-trip","tag-religion","tag-that-mike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}