{"id":2368,"date":"2014-07-07T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2014-07-17T14:09:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T18:09:50","slug":"i-had-been-tracking-the-missing-goats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-had-been-tracking-the-missing-goats\/","title":{"rendered":"I Had Been Tracking the Missing Goats"},"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\" \/>they sup at alien tables<\/li>\n<li>the missing goats<\/li>\n<li>kiss the girls<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Bandits &#8212; Bandits! Bandits!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>water-gypsies!<\/li>\n<li>the toothed circle of a reconstructed Stonehenge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I had been tracking <em>the missing goats<\/em> for almost 24 hours, ever since my sister ran from the barn screaming, <em>&#8220;Bandits &#8212; Bandits! Bandits!&#8221;<\/em> The trail led me here, to <em>the toothed circle of a reconstructed Stonehenge<\/em> on the lonely, windy Salisbury\u00a0Plain. Who could have re-erected these enormous stones in a single evening? And then the answer came to me. <em>Water-gypsies!<\/em> Harnessing their intrepid water-moose, the lovely aquatic extraterrestrials could accomplish nearly anything. I sat on the cold, damp ground and leaned my back against one of the towering sarsen stones and waited for my chance to <em>kiss the girls<\/em> from another world. As for the goats? Well, I&#8217;m afraid to say that tonight <em>they sup at alien tables<\/em>. We shan&#8217;t be seeing them again.<\/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>they sup at alien tables the missing goats kiss the girls &#8220;Bandits &#8212; Bandits! Bandits!&#8221; water-gypsies! the toothed circle of a reconstructed Stonehenge I had been tracking the missing goats for almost 24 hours, ever since my sister ran from the barn screaming, &#8220;Bandits &#8212; Bandits! Bandits!&#8221; The trail led me here, to the toothed [&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":[42,335,271,350],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","tag-alien","tag-animal","tag-scifi","tag-sister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","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=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2369,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}