{"id":2521,"date":"2014-12-08T08:12:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T13:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2014-11-10T09:05:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T14:05:56","slug":"cotton-umbrellas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/cotton-umbrellas\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton Umbrellas, and Useful Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>cotton umbrellas, and useful knowledge<\/li>\n<li>throw other people\u2019s lives into disarray<\/li>\n<li>Whenever she wore pants<\/li>\n<li>Should it ever leave the ground<\/li>\n<li>scattering in all directions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Jen&#8217;s Take<\/strong><\/p>\n<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\" \/>For years Lolita&#8217;s\u00a0sartorial choices were the talk of the internet. <em>Whenever she wore pants<\/em> instead of a short skirt it would <em>throw other people&#8217;s lives into disarray<\/em>. Fashion bloggers never knew quite what to say, their clever words <em>scattering in all directions<\/em> like so many <em>cotton umbrellas, and useful knowledge<\/em> of how the masses could emulate Lovely Lolita&#8217;s style never appeared. Lolita dreamed of turning all of her cast-off clothing into a giant hot air balloon. <em>Should it ever leave the ground<\/em>, she thought she would enjoy looking down on all those who had previously looked down on her.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kent&#8217;s Take<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><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\" \/>Her imagination was like a giant, colorful balloon filled with fish and sneakers and harmonicas.\u00a0<em>Should it ever leave the ground<\/em>, the townsfolk would be flabbergasted by\u00a0<em>cotton umbrellas, and useful knowledge<\/em>,\u00a0<em>scattering in all directions<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Her balloon would always\u00a0<em>throw other people\u2019s lives into disarray<\/em>. They couldn\u2019t reconcile her chaotic visions with their own preference for beige humdrummery. To see the creative faculties of her mind soaring over the trees made their earwax buzz.<\/p>\n<p><em>Whenever she wore pants<\/em>, her balloon sailed in figure-eights. Whenever she wore shoes, two tiny banjos were elected to parliament.<\/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>cotton umbrellas, and useful knowledge throw other people\u2019s lives into disarray Whenever she wore pants Should it ever leave the ground scattering in all directions Jen&#8217;s Take For years Lolita&#8217;s\u00a0sartorial choices were the talk of the internet. Whenever she wore pants instead of a short skirt it would throw other people&#8217;s lives into disarray. Fashion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,4],"tags":[341,349,88],"class_list":["post-2521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-clothes","tag-gonzo","tag-shared-prompt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2627,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions\/2627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}