{"id":5857,"date":"2013-01-11T17:32:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T23:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=5857"},"modified":"2013-01-11T17:32:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T23:32:03","slug":"rattlesnake-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2013\/01\/rattlesnake-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Rattlesnake Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <strong>Dean Metcalf \u201969<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5940\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/33d\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2013\/01\/33d.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"406,600\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"33d\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2013\/01\/33d-203x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2013\/01\/33d.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5940\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/281\/files\/2013\/01\/33d-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2013\/01\/33d-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2013\/01\/33d.jpg 406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/>Metcalf, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, grappled with the demons he encountered in Vietnam and in his post-combat nightmares. The book is a memoir of war, journalism, and growing up in the Pacific Northwest. Stories of his four years in the U.S. Marine Corps \u2014 in Vietnam; Okinawa, Japan; the Philippines; Taiwan; South China Sea; and the Gulf of Tonkin \u2014 and how they affected the rest of his life form the core of the book. In addition to serving as the book\u2019s title, \u201cRattlesnake Dreams\u201d also is the name of Metcalf\u2019s blog.<\/p>\n<p><em>ISBN-13: 978-0578088099. Published by Metcalf Publications, 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dean Metcalf \u201969 Metcalf, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, grappled with the demons he encountered in Vietnam and in his post-combat nightmares. The book is a memoir of war, journalism, and growing up in the Pacific Northwest. Stories of his four years in the U.S. Marine Corps \u2014 in Vietnam; Okinawa, Japan; the Philippines;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-5857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-december-2012","tag-on-the-bookshelf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}