{"id":2326,"date":"2010-06-20T09:10:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T08:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2010-06-20T15:32:14","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T14:32:14","slug":"a-punny-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/20\/a-punny-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"A punny dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/di100620.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2331\" title=\"di100620\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/di100620.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/di100620.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/di100620-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Picture from M\u00c3\u00b8ll.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here at M\u00c3\u00b8ll there are several people who have that place name as their last name, a common tradition in Norway among farmers and their descendants. One of these works at the tax office. \u00c2\u00a0(This is actually true in real life.)<\/p>\n<p>In my dream, some guy came to the tax office and asked to see M\u00c3\u00b8ll. When Mr M\u00c3\u00b8ll appeared, the guy basically dumped a load of tax papers on the desk and excused himself and left. &#8220;What&#8217;s with him?&#8221; wondered my neighbor. I replied: &#8220;Perhaps he has read the Scripture that says: Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where Moth and rust destroy&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(The Norwegian word for moth is m\u00c3\u00b8ll, as regular readers may remember. Yes, even in my dreams I make cheesy puns! But at least I still recall the Scriptures in my sleep, so perhaps there is some hope for my soul&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture from M\u00c3\u00b8ll. Here at M\u00c3\u00b8ll there are several people who have that place name as their last name, a common tradition in Norway among farmers and their descendants. One of these works at the tax office. \u00c2\u00a0(This is actually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/20\/a-punny-dream\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-2326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slice-of-life","tag-dreams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2333,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions\/2333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}