{"id":961,"date":"2025-03-26T08:06:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T21:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/?p=961"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:28:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T22:28:04","slug":"the-flying-somnambulist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/26\/the-flying-somnambulist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flying Somnambulist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is a kind of magic in hopping on a plane in what feels like the middle of the night, to go to a place where you\u2019re not required to do anything but be.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we fly across the globe, the sunrise chases us, but never quite catches us &#8211; caught the land of the night for as long as we can fly.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The darkness of the cabin, the hum of air rushing past, people sleeping or watching screens.<br>There is the occasional click of a seat strap, people softly walking to the bathroom.<br>On one screen is Forrest Gump, another shows a Disney animated film.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a strangeness in escaping to the dream behind the screen, when one is already in a waking dream, travelling to a world that is a dream.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a kind of magic in hopping on a plane in what feels like the middle of the night, to go to a place where you\u2019re not required to do anything but be.&nbsp; As we fly across the globe, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/26\/the-flying-somnambulist\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uktrip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}