{"id":252,"date":"2003-02-19T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-19T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2003\/02\/the-dreaming\/"},"modified":"2003-02-19T11:39:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-19T11:39:00","slug":"the-dreaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2003\/02\/the-dreaming\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dreaming&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>***Excerpt from a couple of book reviews found <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artbomb.net\">here<\/a><\/b>***<\/i><br \/>\n<b>DREAM COUNTRY<\/b> &#8211;<br \/>\nI urge you to do two things: read all of the SANDMAN books; and read them in order. You must do the first because these books are great literature and great literature will affect you. I urge you to do the second because though each volume is complete in itself, the series is one epic tale. You wouldn&#8217;t read War and Peace starting at page 168, would you? Approach SANDMAN in the same manner, begin at the beginning and end&#8230; well, at the end. If however, by some strange twist of fate, you should find yourself with DREAM COUNTRY in your trembling palms, begging your attention and you haven&#8217;t yet had the pleasure of the first two volumes, you have dispensation to read it. <\/p>\n<p><b>A GAME OF YOU<\/b> &#8211;<br \/>\nAlice in Wonderland meets Priscilla: Queen of the Desert and The Wizard of Oz, as directed by Joseph Campbell, A GAME OF YOU is what your favorite bedtime story grew up to be.<\/p>\n<p>:-D<br \/>\nMajor Sandman resources on the &#8216;Net :<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holycow.com\/dreaming\/\">The definitive Neil Gaiman page<\/a><\/b><br \/>\n<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de\/~hildeb\/sandman\/\">Annotations to the comics<\/a><\/b><br \/>\n<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.virginia.edu\/~sdh9b\/mckean\/\">Dave McKean&#8217;s Artwork<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>***Excerpt from a couple of book reviews found here*** DREAM COUNTRY &#8211; I urge you to do two things: read all of the SANDMAN books; and read them in order. You must do the first because these books are great literature and great literature will affect you. I urge you to do the second because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}