{"id":2629,"date":"2017-09-28T18:01:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T02:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2629"},"modified":"2017-09-28T18:01:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T02:01:52","slug":"dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2629","title":{"rendered":"Dream!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dare to dream new dreams! This is not in the sense of the night-dreams that come to you, but rather in the sense of daring to envision possibilities for your life, even if only fantasy.    <br \/>&#160; At the end of the Muppet Movie around 1979, Kermit sings, \u201cLife\u2019s like a movie, write your own ending! Keep believing, keep pretending!\u201d    <br \/>&#160;&#160; In around 1949 there was a Broadway Play titled <em>South Pacific<\/em>, and within it was a song called Happy Talk (written by Oscar Hammerstein II), the refrain of which was, \u201cYou got to have a dream! If you don\u2019t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?\u201d    <br \/>&#160; In Stout-Hearted Men, by Sigmund Romberg (1928), a song in the musical <em>New Moon<\/em>, the first line is \u201cYou, who have dreams! If you act, they will come true! To turn your dreams to facts is up to you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClimb every mountain, ford every stream, follow every rainbow, \u2018til you find your dreams!\u201d are the opening words in a song from <em>Sound of Music<\/em>, a 1959 Broadway musical production.    <br \/>&#160;&#160; Back to<em> the Muppet Movie<\/em>, near the end of the theme song, Kermit also sings as the end of the<em> Rainbow Connection<\/em>\u2014a song by Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher\u2014:    <br \/>&#160; \u201c&#8230;what is it you\u2019d like to do?    <br \/> All of us watching and hoping you\u2019ll find it\u2014    <br \/>We know that you\u2019re watching, too!    <br \/> Some day you\u2019ll find it, the Rainbow Connection,    <br \/> The Lovers, the Dreamers, and you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frank Sinatra sings in the 1953 song, <em>Young at Heart<\/em>.     <br \/>&#160; \u201cFairy tales can come true, it can happen to you, if you\u2019re young at heart.\u201d    <br \/>&#160;&#160;&#160; and John Denver sings at the end of his 1969 song <em>Rhymes and Reasons<\/em>:    <br \/>\u201cAnd the song that I am singing is a prayer to non-believers:    <br \/>&#160; Come and stand beside us! We can find a better way!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Dorothy (played by Judy Garland), in the Wizard of Oz, a movie in 1939, sings at the end of her song, Over the Rainbow: \u201cIf little bluebirds all can fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can\u2019t I?\u201d&#160; So dream on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dare to dream new dreams! This is not in the sense of the night-dreams that come to you, but rather in the sense of daring to envision possibilities for your life, even if only fantasy. &#160; At the end of the Muppet Movie around 1979, Kermit sings, \u201cLife\u2019s like a movie, write your own ending! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15,25,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-papers","category-favoritethings","category-play-and-spontaneity","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2630,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions\/2630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}