{"id":2229,"date":"2014-05-19T08:03:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T12:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2014-05-04T17:15:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T21:15:15","slug":"deirdre-just-couldnt-get-the-bellhops-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/deirdre-just-couldnt-get-the-bellhops-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Deirdre Just Couldn&#8217;t Get the Bellhop&#8217;s Attention"},"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\" \/>muscles I hadn&#8217;t used before<\/li>\n<li>a phenomenally costly divorce<\/li>\n<li>old-fashioned meat and potatoes<\/li>\n<li>wouldn&#8217;t have mattered if she were chrome orange<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;One suitcase,&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>registrations in Culver City<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Deirdre just couldn&#8217;t get the bellhop&#8217;s attention. It <em>wouldn&#8217;t have mattered if she were chrome, orange<\/em>-scented, and blinking, the man was studiously ignoring her.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;One suitcase,&#8221;<\/em> his dismissive air said. &#8220;No tip there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Little did he know that Dierdre had just come out on the winning side of <em>a phenomenally costly divorce<\/em> settlement, and was in the mood to splurge. Her lawyer claimed the victory came from &#8220;using <em>muscles I hadn&#8217;t used before<\/em>, at least not in a court of law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Once the papers were signed and the divorce was final, leaving Derek nothing but a memory, Deirdre made several hotel <em>registrations in Culver City<\/em> under assumed names, and was attempting to check into the chicest of the bunch. The restaurant on the third floor bragged of their <em>old-fashioned meat, and potatoes<\/em> so modern they should be on display in the Tate. Deirdre couldn&#8217;t wait to spend Derek&#8217;s money on something so outrageous.<\/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>muscles I hadn&#8217;t used before a phenomenally costly divorce old-fashioned meat and potatoes wouldn&#8217;t have mattered if she were chrome orange &#8220;One suitcase,&#8221; registrations in Culver City Deirdre just couldn&#8217;t get the bellhop&#8217;s attention. It wouldn&#8217;t have mattered if she were chrome, orange-scented, and blinking, the man was studiously ignoring her. &#8220;One suitcase,&#8221; his dismissive [&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":[342,71],"class_list":["post-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-food","tag-spouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229","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=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2230,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions\/2230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}