{"id":1353,"date":"2013-08-28T08:16:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T12:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2014-01-04T20:43:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T01:43:24","slug":"simon-had-just-found-out-definitively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/simon-had-just-found-out-definitively\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Had Just Found Out, Definitively"},"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\" \/>atoms infinitely smaller than our atoms<\/span><\/li>\n<li>he would never have wings<\/li>\n<li>Thrilled?<\/li>\n<li>the splendor of his funeral clothes<\/li>\n<li>a foot-soldier in the ranks of science<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"line-height: 24px;\">Simon had just found out, definitively, that <em>he would never have wings<\/em>. How was that supposed to make him feel?<em> Thrilled?<\/em> It made him feel like a visitor from a universe with <em>atoms infinitely smaller than our atoms<\/em>, like <em>a foot-soldier in the ranks of science<\/em> battling squadrons of superstitious scoffers. It made him doubt<em> the splendor of his funeral clothes<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Had Simon known from the start that he was a millipede and not a caterpillar, he would have been spared the whole turmoil.<\/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>atoms infinitely smaller than our atoms he would never have wings Thrilled? the splendor of his funeral clothes a foot-soldier in the ranks of science Simon had just found out, definitively, that he would never have wings. How was that supposed to make him feel? Thrilled? It made him feel like a visitor from a [&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":[335],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-animal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","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=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}