{"id":1379,"date":"2013-09-25T08:09:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T12:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2014-01-04T20:40:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T01:40:59","slug":"traveling-with-diplomats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/traveling-with-diplomats\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling with Diplomats"},"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\" \/>not always the cleverest<\/span><\/li>\n<li>pretend to hold the wheel<\/li>\n<li>staying at the Austrian embassy<\/li>\n<li>I wished to shake her sang-froid<\/li>\n<li>the long-legged Englishman<\/li>\n<li>the length of his mustache<\/li>\n<li>A <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">good<\/span> scent?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"line-height: 24px;\">Traveling with diplomats is <em>not always the cleverest<\/em> way to see the world. The accommodations are usually posh, but infested with spies.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Once, while <em>staying at the Austrian embassy<\/em> in Australia (or was it the other way around?), I found myself ensnared in unseemly entertainments which led to a course of antibiotics. I&#8217;d tailed a sultry espionage agent to the private club in the basement, and although <em>I wished to shake her sang-froid<\/em> she only wanted to shake her money-maker. Then she&#8217;d <em>pretend to hold the wheel<\/em> of a ship and cry out, &#8220;Thar she blows!&#8221; each time <em>the long-legged Englishman<\/em> recrossed his ankles. I think she was impressed by <em>the length of his mustache<\/em>, and its scent. But was it <em>a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">good<\/span> scent?<\/em><\/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>not always the cleverest pretend to hold the wheel staying at the Austrian embassy I wished to shake her sang-froid the long-legged Englishman the length of his mustache A good scent? Traveling with diplomats is not always the cleverest way to see the world. The accommodations are usually posh, but infested with spies. Once, while [&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":[279,295,74,172],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-dance","tag-foreign-lands","tag-mustache","tag-spy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","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=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2011,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}