{"id":105,"date":"2003-07-23T01:29:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-23T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/dreamscapes\/?p=105"},"modified":"2003-07-23T01:29:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-23T01:29:00","slug":"superman-cant-help-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/dreamscapes\/2003\/07\/superman-cant-help-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman can&#8217;t help us!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(original date: ??,1997)<br \/>Superman can\u2019t help us<br \/>He\u2019s in a wheelchair now.<br \/>It\u2019s not his fault,<br \/>we should have learned<br \/>To take care of ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Where are our superheroes?<br \/>Now, when we need them the most.<\/p>\n<p>Superman can\u2019t help us<br \/>Who can save us now<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Part of the feeling that I got with this dream (when Christopher Reeves had his accident) was that \u2018Superman\u2019 couldn\u2019t help us now. I took this to mean that society&#8217;s inability to be responsible for its actions has left us defenseless. By relying on mythical imagery (tv stars, tv characters) to solve our societal turmoil, we have lost our self-reliance. Life does imitate art! Our needs are satisfied (more like &#8211; put off) by what we see in the movies. We make heroes of movie stars and professional athletes rather than looking within. Social leaders and members of our community are larger than life and can be a better role model &#038; \u2018superior\u2019 mentors.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n(original date: ??,1997)Superman can\u2019t help usHe\u2019s in a wheelchair now.It\u2019s not his fault,we should have learnedTo take care of ourselves.&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/psolis.com\/dreamscapes\/2003\/07\/superman-cant-help-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Superman can&#8217;t help us!&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,36],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dreams","tag-poetry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/dreamscapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/dreamscapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/dreamscapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/dreamscapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/dreamscapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/dreamscapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/dreamscapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/dreamscapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/dreamscapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}