{"id":1563,"date":"2013-12-09T08:12:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T13:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2014-01-04T20:36:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T01:36:37","slug":"maxine-stared-longingly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/maxine-stared-longingly\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxine Stared Longingly"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><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\" \/>be a hard bargainer!<\/li>\n<li>that&#8217;s where all the Greek gods live<\/li>\n<li>like a spinning mouse<\/li>\n<li>began to pick the dust and rocks off them<\/li>\n<li>on her knees before me<\/li>\n<li>but also a pathological walking delusion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maxine stared longingly at the fraternity house and said, &#8220;<em>That&#8217;s where all the Greek gods live<\/em>.&#8221; She was <em>on her knees before me<\/em>, so I told her to stand. Her pants were covered with road dirt and she <em>began to pick the dust and rocks off them<\/em>, her hands darting about <em>like a spinning mouse<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Maxine had a neatness obsession, <em>but also a pathological walking delusion<\/em> which made it impossible for her to go anywhere alone. I am her paid companion. I earn a good salary and even have health insurance. My advice to anyone negotiating an employment contract is <em>be a hard bargainer!<\/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>be a hard bargainer! that&#8217;s where all the Greek gods live like a spinning mouse began to pick the dust and rocks off them on her knees before me but also a pathological walking delusion Maxine stared longingly at the fraternity house and said, &#8220;That&#8217;s where all the Greek gods live.&#8221; She was on her [&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],"tags":[341,201,232],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","tag-clothes","tag-money","tag-mouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","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=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1988,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions\/1988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}