{"id":2239,"date":"2014-05-21T08:15:04","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T12:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2014-05-04T18:13:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T22:13:34","slug":"no-not-a-poodle-a-paddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/no-not-a-poodle-a-paddle\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No! Not a Poodle, a Paddle!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/k-avatar.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-24\" alt=\"k-avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/k-avatar.png\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/><\/a>they drank their soup<\/li>\n<li>postdated receipt<\/li>\n<li>you&#8217;re so inept<\/li>\n<li>He was giving her clothes!<\/li>\n<li>a fat paddle with a handle upside down<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;No! Not a poodle, a paddle! <em>A fat paddle with a handle upside down<\/em>. <em>You&#8217;re so inept<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Simon, chagrined, led the dog away. Martin shook his head and sighed. What else had Simon screwed up?<\/p>\n<p>A quick glance at his desk provided the answer in the form of a <em>postdated receipt<\/em> from the women&#8217;s department. This had Shirley&#8217;s signature all over it, as much as if it were literally inked onto the strip of paper. She loved to mess with Simon&#8217;s head, and now she was really taking advantage of him. <em>He was giving her clothes!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Martin stalked down to the commissary to find Simon and Shirley at the same table. <em>They drank their soup<\/em> like old friends. It made Martin seethe with disapproval.<\/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>they drank their soup postdated receipt you&#8217;re so inept He was giving her clothes! a fat paddle with a handle upside down &#8220;No! Not a poodle, a paddle! A fat paddle with a handle upside down. You&#8217;re so inept.&#8221; Simon, chagrined, led the dog away. Martin shook his head and sighed. What else had Simon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,4],"tags":[335,342],"class_list":["post-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-animal","tag-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}