{"id":1341,"date":"2013-08-07T08:09:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T12:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2014-01-01T00:04:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T05:04:59","slug":"were-he-a-commoner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/were-he-a-commoner\/","title":{"rendered":"Were He a Commoner"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-24\" alt=\"k-avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/k-avatar.png\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>a bonny lord and a merry one<\/span><\/li>\n<li>under the eyes<\/li>\n<li>grinned involuntarily with appreciation<\/li>\n<li>blue-gray eyes suddenly keen<\/li>\n<li>would have been described as stocky<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"line-height: 24px;\">Were he a commoner, Smedley <em>would have been described as stocky<\/em>. But he was <em>a bonny lord and a merry one<\/em>, often at the same time, and so he was accounted robust of stature.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Smedley&#8217;s position at court afforded many luxuries. His special favorite was dancers, one in particular with many jingling bells and cymbals and tattoos <em>under the eyes<\/em>. When she swayed and twirled before him, Smedley <em>grinned involuntarily with appreciation<\/em> for her grace and flexibility, which a, shall we say, stocky personage might view in more frankly vulgar terms.<\/p>\n<p>One gusty winter night a new dancer appeared before Smedley. He sat forward in his chair, <em>blue-gray eyes suddenly keen<\/em>. The newcomer&#8217;s feet were just as nimble, howsoever they might be clad in perplexing low boots that set up a clattering like hailstones with her every step. The cane and the straw hat confused Smedley most of all.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stichomancy Writing Prompts\" href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompts\/\">about stichomancy writing prompts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a bonny lord and a merry one under the eyes grinned involuntarily with appreciation blue-gray eyes suddenly keen would have been described as stocky Were he a commoner, Smedley would have been described as stocky. But he was a bonny lord and a merry one, often at the same time, and so he was accounted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,4],"tags":[279,333,40,238],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-dance","tag-royalty","tag-shoes","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1349,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions\/1349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}