{"id":2461,"date":"2014-10-29T08:12:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T12:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2014-09-08T14:49:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T18:49:11","slug":"thanks-for-the-tea-poco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/thanks-for-the-tea-poco\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Thanks For the Tea, Poco&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/k-avatar.png\" alt=\"k-avatar\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>the yellow spheres<\/li>\n<li>Screech! I felt it.<\/li>\n<li>lick at his sore feet<\/li>\n<li>Thanks for the tea, Poco<\/li>\n<li>back door moments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Thanks for the tea, Poco<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I drained my mug, got up from the table, and was out the <em>back door moments<\/em> before Poco&#8217;s uncle Pico pulled up out front. Pico slammed on the brakes &#8212; <em>Screech! I felt it.<\/em> I shimmied over the fence and beat feet.<\/p>\n<p>In the alley, an old wino let a mongrel <em>lick at his sore feet<\/em>. I left them to it.<\/p>\n<p>Poco&#8217;s aunt Paca would be just finishing up her lesson at the tennis court. I pictured her in a short white dress, as <em>the yellow spheres<\/em> ricocheted all around her. Then she felt like stretching&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Back door moments, indeed.<\/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>the yellow spheres Screech! I felt it. lick at his sore feet Thanks for the tea, Poco back door moments &#8220;Thanks for the tea, Poco.&#8221; I drained my mug, got up from the table, and was out the back door moments before Poco&#8217;s uncle Pico pulled up out front. Pico slammed on the brakes &#8212; [&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":[342,182,346,344],"class_list":["post-2461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-food","tag-sex","tag-sports","tag-uncle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461","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=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2463,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions\/2463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}