{"id":2486,"date":"2014-11-03T08:25:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T13:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2486"},"modified":"2014-11-04T10:16:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T15:16:11","slug":"im-no-slouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/im-no-slouch\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m No Slouch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>fertile ground for unintentional comedy<\/li>\n<li>bustling up from his chair<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m no slouch<\/li>\n<li>leave it alone<\/li>\n<li>find myself craving the famous borscht<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m no slouch<\/em>, but my Russian is not as good as it could be. I try to tell the ambassador that whenever I am in Moscow I <em>find myself craving the famous borscht<\/em>. Who knows what I actually say. The ambassador cries, &#8220;Leave it alone, <em>leave it alone<\/em>!&#8221; while <em>bustling up from his chair<\/em>, his face as red as the beets the soup is made from.\u00a0Cultural misunderstandings are <em>fertile ground for unintentional comedy<\/em>, but they make diplomacy a bitch.<\/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>fertile ground for unintentional comedy bustling up from his chair I\u2019m no slouch leave it alone find myself craving the famous borscht I&#8217;m no slouch, but my Russian is not as good as it could be. I try to tell the ambassador that whenever I am in Moscow I find myself craving the famous borscht. [&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":[197,342,295,155],"class_list":["post-2486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-cautionary-tale","tag-food","tag-foreign-lands","tag-politician"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486","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=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2611,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions\/2611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}