{"id":1480,"date":"2013-10-28T08:16:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T12:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2014-01-04T20:39:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T01:39:25","slug":"when-i-saw-him-by-the-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/when-i-saw-him-by-the-well\/","title":{"rendered":"When I Saw Him By The Well"},"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\" \/>I intend to win!<\/span><\/li>\n<li>I saw him by the well<\/li>\n<li>what do you want, Raimundo?<\/li>\n<li>a transaction betwixt you, me and the August weather<\/li>\n<li>carrying a rubber dinosaur between them<\/li>\n<li>I am like the fisherman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"line-height: 24px;\">When <em>I saw him by the well<\/em>, I should have turned around and taken another route through town, but I did not and now I regretted it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>What do you want, Raimundo?<\/em>&#8221; I sighed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing at all Celeste, excepting <em>a transaction betwixt you, me, and the August weather<\/em>.&#8221; He waggled his eyebrows lasciviously.<\/p>\n<p>I snorted at his feeble attempt to woo me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Laugh all you like, Celeste,&#8221; Raimundo said. &#8220;We are both familiar with the old story of the fisherman and the computer programmer <em>carrying a rubber dinosaur between them<\/em> until one collapsed, proving the superiority of his rival. <em>I am like the fisherman<\/em> in that story, Celeste, and, just like that fisherman,<em>\u00a0I intend to win!<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I hate to admit it, but my heart fluttered at his declaration.<\/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>I intend to win! I saw him by the well what do you want, Raimundo? a transaction betwixt you, me and the August weather carrying a rubber dinosaur between them I am like the fisherman When I saw him by the well, I should have turned around and taken another route through town, but I [&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":[347,257,180,238],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-romance","tag-rubber-dinosaur","tag-seduction","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","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=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2002,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}