{"id":1521,"date":"2013-11-06T08:13:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T13:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2014-01-04T20:39:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T01:39:01","slug":"heinrich-floats-face-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/heinrich-floats-face-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Heinrich Floats Face-Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><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\" \/>nibbled by snails<\/li>\n<li>you selfish bitch<\/li>\n<li>Germany&#8217;s not the holy land<\/li>\n<li>chin, belly and balls are jutting promontories<\/li>\n<li>grey stucco urinal<\/li>\n<li>always so malignant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Heinrich floats face-down in the vast aquarium; his <em>chin, belly and balls are jutting promontories<\/em> <em>nibbled by snails<\/em> that have slithered up the sides of the tank. His buttocks and snorkel protrude above the surface; they bulge forth into the air and give landing space to multicolored insect life.<\/p>\n<p>In Heinrich&#8217;s memory, his mother&#8217;s voice assaults him. &#8220;<em>Germany&#8217;s not the holy land<\/em>,&#8221; she says icily. Well, neither is Queens, <em>you selfish bitch<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Her words were <em>always so malignant<\/em>, like the smell of the <em>grey stucco urinal<\/em> in the back room of the &#8220;pet store&#8221; where Heinrich found solace among his invertebrate friends, and their nibbling.<\/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>nibbled by snails you selfish bitch Germany&#8217;s not the holy land chin, belly and balls are jutting promontories grey stucco urinal always so malignant Heinrich floats face-down in the vast aquarium; his chin, belly and balls are jutting promontories nibbled by snails that have slithered up the sides of the tank. His buttocks and snorkel [&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":[335,331,266],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-animal","tag-parent","tag-snails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","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=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}