{"id":794,"date":"2022-08-29T18:14:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T18:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/?p=794"},"modified":"2022-08-29T18:14:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T18:14:40","slug":"star-shaped-flowers-my-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/?p=794","title":{"rendered":"Star-Shaped Flowers: My Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A dream inspired my song &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3FXbTio\">Star-Shaped Flowers<\/a>. I seldom use dreams as the basis for songs unless they come all-in-a-piece. I wrote the song <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1g67L3j\">After the Fall<\/a>, my September 11 song, after a vivid dream I could not get out of my head. I wrote that song in the morning immediately after that dream, and<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Apd0WW\"> Star-Shaped Flowers<\/a> demanded the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my &#8220;Star-Shaped Flowers dream&#8221;, my mother &#8211; dead for over twenty years &#8211; whispered to me from beyond a wall that stretched outwards and upwards into infinity. The vivid dream woke me up just before dawn. The strong impression the dream left inspired me to write down the dream-experience at once. As I wrote I remembered my mother&#8217;s life and her passing. The dream and memories led to the <a href=\"https:\/\/spoti.fi\/3IpJ93o\">Star-Shaped Flowers<\/a> lyrics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dream inspired my song &#8211; Star-Shaped Flowers. I seldom use dreams as the basis for songs unless they come all-in-a-piece. I wrote the song After the Fall, my September <a href=\"https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/?p=794\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[134,129,91,21,1],"tags":[5,9,4,49,24],"class_list":["entry","author-songguy","post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-inspiration","category-reynold-singer-songwriter","category-reynoldsongs","category-songwriting","category-uncategorized","tag-new-song","tag-original-song","tag-reynold","tag-reynoldsongs","tag-songwriting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsongs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}