{"id":2971,"date":"2006-06-19T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2971"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:29","slug":"48-hour-reading-contest-dreams-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2971","title":{"rendered":"48 Hour Reading Contest: Dreams and Nightmares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2058\/873\/1600\/dream_king.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2058\/873\/320\/dream_king.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>I know I&#8217;m posting these late! Somehow, this turned into the worst weekend EVER to do a reading contest, but never mind, I got through it, and it was fun to keep snatching moutfuls of story whenever I had a moment. And, for the first time, I got to read a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Graphic_novel\">graphic novel!<\/a> Neil Gaiman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksense.com\/product\/info.jsp?affiliateId=ReadersResponse&#038;isbn=156389629X\">Sandman: The Dream Hunters<\/a> was unexpectedly <em>not<\/em> like a comic book, but a deeply involved and stylishly illustrated novel in its own right, beginning with a strange story about a badger and a fox, who, seeing the coming winter, try to drive a monk out of his temple in a variety of interesting and menacingways (which backfire on them most amusingly). From an almost fable-like beginning, the novel morphs into a more substantial and detailed story, which is about greed, desire and fear. In the end, the fox who once only saw him as a means to a warmer place to sleep, falls in love with the monk, and makes a desperate bid to save him from his enemies with the help of dreams. The Dream King, stylishly illustrated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amanosworld.com\/\">Yoshikata Amano,<\/a> is beautifully androgynous, dangerous looking and powerful. A convoluted tale that is too short, with pictures startling enough to keep you turning back to them over and over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;m posting these late! Somehow, this turned into the worst weekend EVER to do a reading contest, but never mind, I got&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-2971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3565,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions\/3565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}