{"id":1605,"date":"2015-04-26T09:21:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T16:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2023-10-19T20:45:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T03:45:38","slug":"last-night-i-dreamed-of-mohammad-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/last-night-i-dreamed-of-mohammad-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Night I Dreamed of Muhammad Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Turns out he is a sweet enough guy<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> and his Parkinson\u2019s is not as bad as they say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Told me he had heard of me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> \u2014 we had the same draft board in Houston<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> in the Sixties back when he was Cassius Clay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>George<\/em>,\u00a0he said,\u00a0<em>getting old is a bitch.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <em>Best thing to do&#8217;s get back in the ring,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <em>come out of hiding, give and take a punch<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <em>or two. That way, leas\u2019 you go down fighting.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><span style=\"color: #333399;\">An actual dream and real facts. Ali and I shared a draft board and opinions on the Vietnam War. He was black. I am white;. He went to jail. I went to Canada for the same reasons, roughly. And now I&#8217;ve been diagnosed with #PD..<\/span><\/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>Turns out he is a sweet enough guy and his Parkinson\u2019s is not as bad as they say. Told me he had heard of me \u2014 we had the same draft board in Houston in the Sixties back when he was Cassius Clay. George,\u00a0he said,\u00a0getting old is a bitch. Best thing to do&#8217;s get back &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/last-night-i-dreamed-of-mohammad-ali\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Last Night I Dreamed of Muhammad Ali&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[15,35,9],"class_list":["post-1605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","tag-aging","tag-dreams","tag-houston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4848,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions\/4848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}