{"id":2557,"date":"2015-12-21T08:06:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T13:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2014-12-06T12:44:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T17:44:31","slug":"i-hated-my-grandfather-holiday-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-hated-my-grandfather-holiday-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hated My Grandfather &#8211; Holiday Prompt"},"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\" \/>I laughed when I saw him<\/li>\n<li>whatever the reason, his heart or his shoes<\/li>\n<li>ice-cold in the snow<\/li>\n<li>my two front teeth<\/li>\n<li>a wonderful, awful idea<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hated my grandfather. He was a cruel man who died a fitting death, tumbling down the tall, narrow stairs of his rickety old mansion. The manservant\u00a0said he tripped over his shoelaces. The coroner blamed his bum ticker. <em>Whatever the reason, his heart or his shoes<\/em>, the old bastard was finally dead. <em>I laughed when I saw him<\/em> on\u00a0the newspaper&#8217;s obituary page. After the funeral\u00a0I visited his terrible house one last time. The place was empty, the servants gone, the electricity disconnected. Even though it was August, the rooms were\u00a0<em>ice-cold. In the snow<\/em>\u00a0globe on Grandfather&#8217;s\u00a0desk were <em>my two front teeth<\/em>, the ones I&#8217;d lost as a child when I\u00a0fell down the very same stairs that so recently claimed\u00a0my grandfather. I had always thought Grandfather himself pushed me on that fateful day, but now I had <em>a wonderful, awful idea<\/em>. What if the curse was real?<\/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>I laughed when I saw him whatever the reason, his heart or his shoes ice-cold in the snow my two front teeth a wonderful, awful idea I hated my grandfather. He was a cruel man who died a fitting death, tumbling down the tall, narrow stairs of his rickety old mansion. The manservant\u00a0said he tripped [&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":[130,351,23],"class_list":["post-2557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-holiday","tag-horror","tag-manservant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557","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=2557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2681,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions\/2681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}