{"id":1333,"date":"2013-08-12T08:14:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T12:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2014-01-04T20:44:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T01:44:14","slug":"the-cattle-too-were-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/the-cattle-too-were-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cattle, Too, Were Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-13\" alt=\"by jen\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/j-avatar.png\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>wrapped their heirloom weapons<\/span><\/li>\n<li>fought in the Trojan War, but not very well<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Are you saying I&#8217;ve grown fat?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The cattle, too, were gone<\/li>\n<li>She was warmer on the horse&#8217;s back<\/li>\n<li>her lack of enthusiasm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"line-height: 24px;\">&#8220;<em>The cattle, too, were gone<\/em>\u00a0by the time I mended the hole in the fence,&#8221; Bridget said, and I noted <em>her lack of enthusiasm<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Are you saying I&#8217;ve grown fat?&#8221;<\/em> I asked, trying to lighten her mood with a little joke.<\/p>\n<p>She smiled. &#8220;You&#8217;re fit as ever, darling.&#8221; Then she shivered like a warrior who <em>fought in the Trojan War, but not very well<\/em>. <em>She was warmer on the horse&#8217;s back<\/em> than she was now, dismounted and standing in the snow without the equine&#8217;s heat to warm her.<\/p>\n<p>I quickly shed my anorak and wrapped her in it as master fencers<em> wrapped their heirloom weapons<\/em> between matches. She meant more to me than their antique epees did to them, and I willingly sacrificed my own comfort for hers.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stichomancy Writing Prompts\" href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompts\/\">about stichomancy writing prompts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompt-generator\/\">try our stichomancy writing prompt generator!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wrapped their heirloom weapons fought in the Trojan War, but not very well &#8220;Are you saying I&#8217;ve grown fat?&#8221; The cattle, too, were gone She was warmer on the horse&#8217;s back her lack of enthusiasm &#8220;The cattle, too, were gone\u00a0by the time I mended the hole in the fence,&#8221; Bridget said, and I noted her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,4],"tags":[335,341,189,76],"class_list":["post-1333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-animal","tag-clothes","tag-cow","tag-horse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2024,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions\/2024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}