{"id":211,"date":"2012-07-23T08:04:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T12:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2014-01-04T20:58:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T01:58:09","slug":"i-dare-not-kiss-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-dare-not-kiss-you\/","title":{"rendered":"I Dare Not Kiss You"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-13\" title=\"j-avatar\" alt=\"by jen\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/j-avatar.png\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>&#8220;She works so hard.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px;\">corrupted by your father&#8217;s notions<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px;\">To John&#8217;s dull perceptions<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px;\">I dare not kiss you<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px;\">but now the bitter aftertaste<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>&#8220;<em>I dare not kiss you<\/em>,&#8221; she said, meaning, &#8220;Our previous kisses were sweet while they lasted, <em>but now the bitter aftertaste<\/em> is all that remains, the joy <em>corrupted by your father&#8217;s notions<\/em> of class distinctions and I dare not risk raising his ire again.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><em>To John&#8217;s dull perceptions<\/em> it merely sounded like rejection. He blamed her cooling ardor on the long days she spent toiling cleaning his family&#8217;s mansion. <em>&#8220;She works so hard,&#8221;<\/em> he reminded himself. &#8220;I really should learn to pick up my own dirty socks.&#8221;<\/span><\/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>&#8220;She works so hard.&#8221; corrupted by your father&#8217;s notions To John&#8217;s dull perceptions I dare not kiss you but now the bitter aftertaste &#8220;I dare not kiss you,&#8221; she said, meaning, &#8220;Our previous kisses were sweet while they lasted, but now the bitter aftertaste is all that remains, the joy corrupted by your father&#8217;s notions [&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":[341,54,331,347],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-clothes","tag-kiss","tag-parent","tag-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","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=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2089,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/2089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}