{"id":2168,"date":"2014-04-14T08:18:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T12:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2014-04-02T18:13:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T22:13:34","slug":"the-fee-for-government-burial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/the-fee-for-government-burial\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fee For Government Burial"},"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\" \/>as smoking tears poured from his eyes<\/li>\n<li>my mother was alive then<\/li>\n<li>one extraterrestrial humanoid<\/li>\n<li>furtive-faced little man in an oversize raincoat<\/li>\n<li>The fee for government burial is ten dollars<\/li>\n<li>with cars, refrigerators, a castle in Scotland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;<em>The fee for government burial is ten dollars<\/em>,&#8221; said the <em>furtive-faced little man in an oversize raincoat<\/em> <em>as smoking tears poured from his eyes<\/em> and he exposed himself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let me give you some advice,&#8221; Carlo said, &#8220;<em>one extraterrestrial humanoid<\/em> to another. Keep that thing covered or the earthmen will know that you&#8217;re not just an eccentric rich man <em>with cars, refrigerators, a castle in Scotland<\/em>, and all the rest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sorry,&#8221; said the furtive-faced little man. &#8220;In my grief I forget myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Surely you can afford the ten dollar fee,&#8221; said Carlo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I used to wealthy, years ago,&#8221; said the man, &#8220;but <em>my mother was alive then<\/em>. When she died, our money was cremated along with her body. And now I cannot even afford the government fee to bury my monkey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Feeling sympathy, Carlo slipped the man a tenner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>as smoking tears poured from his eyes my mother was alive then one extraterrestrial humanoid furtive-faced little man in an oversize raincoat The fee for government burial is ten dollars with cars, refrigerators, a castle in Scotland &#8220;The fee for government burial is ten dollars,&#8221; said the furtive-faced little man in an oversize raincoat as [&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":[42,201,122,271],"class_list":["post-2168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-alien","tag-money","tag-monkey","tag-scifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168","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=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2169,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions\/2169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}