{"id":1565,"date":"2013-12-16T08:19:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T13:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2014-01-04T20:36:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T01:36:13","slug":"david-attended-the-auction-at-christies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/david-attended-the-auction-at-christies\/","title":{"rendered":"David Attended the Auction at Christie&#8217;s"},"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\" \/>from faraway Ethiopia or India<\/li>\n<li>nearly a hundred<\/li>\n<li>squeezed between so many<\/li>\n<li>dazzlingly clear and exquisitely polished<\/li>\n<li>I saw this scarecrow<\/li>\n<li>Well, David, there you have it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>David attended the auction at Christie&#8217;s hoping to find an unusual anniversary present for his wife, Cher\u00ed. He was despairing of finding something suitable until he overheard a man in the crowd say, &#8220;<em>I saw this scarecrow<\/em> over by the medieval stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cher\u00ed had grown up in Paris, but had always harbored dreams of a more pastoral existence. A scarecrow could be just the thing. David scurried to the far corner of the auction house and there, <em>squeezed between so many<\/em> suits of armor, he saw the most stunning of all scarecrows. Its eyes were blue, <em>dazzlingly clear and exquisitely polished<\/em>, like jewels <em>from faraway Ethiopia or India<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Well, David, there you have it<\/em>,&#8221; he murmured. &#8220;The perfect gift for Cher\u00ed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He knew he could afford to spend <em>nearly a hundred<\/em> thousand dollars on it, and hoped the bidding wouldn&#8217;t run wild.<\/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>from faraway Ethiopia or India nearly a hundred squeezed between so many dazzlingly clear and exquisitely polished I saw this scarecrow Well, David, there you have it David attended the auction at Christie&#8217;s hoping to find an unusual anniversary present for his wife, Cher\u00ed. He was despairing of finding something suitable until he overheard a [&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":[201,71],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","tag-money","tag-spouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565","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=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}