{"id":2336,"date":"2014-09-01T08:26:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T12:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2014-07-17T11:55:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T15:55:42","slug":"there-will-be-no-tribunal-humpries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/there-will-be-no-tribunal-humpries\/","title":{"rendered":"There Will Be No Tribunal, Humpries"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-13\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/j-avatar.png\" alt=\"by jen\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>Is it a sea dragon?<\/li>\n<li>dropped the feather in the sand<\/li>\n<li>already weep from loneliness<\/li>\n<li>fortune teller&#8217;s blood<\/li>\n<li>his spindly legs<\/li>\n<li>There will be no tribunal, Humphries<\/li>\n<li>another troupe of acrobatic midgets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;<em>There will be no tribunal, Humpries<\/em>,&#8221; Abercrombie said as he <em>dropped the feather in the sand<\/em> where it joined the coagulating pool of the <em>fortune teller&#8217;s blood<\/em>. &#8220;You will be banished and I will simply hire <em>another troupe of acrobatic midgets<\/em> to take your place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Humpries wobbled on <em>his spindly legs<\/em>. He hadn&#8217;t expected to be caught in the act of murder. He had expected time in which to cleverly stage the scene so that the superstitious carnies would all wonder aloud, &#8220;<em>Is it a sea dragon?<\/em> What else could have done this?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But instead he&#8217;d been found out. Humphries couldn&#8217;t bear the thought of banishment. He felt that he could <em>already weep from loneliness<\/em> as he watched Abercrombie stalk away across the beach.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, thought Humpries, the sea dragon could leave two victims&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2e6eb0;\" title=\"Stichomancy Writing Prompts\" href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompts\/\">about stichomancy writing prompts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2e6eb0;\" href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompt-generator\/\">try our stichomancy writing prompt generator!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it a sea dragon? dropped the feather in the sand already weep from loneliness fortune teller&#8217;s blood his spindly legs There will be no tribunal, Humphries another troupe of acrobatic midgets &#8220;There will be no tribunal, Humpries,&#8221; Abercrombie said as he dropped the feather in the sand where it joined the coagulating pool of [&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":[312,339,332],"class_list":["post-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","tag-circus","tag-creature","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","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=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2350,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions\/2350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}