{"id":266,"date":"2012-08-06T08:06:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T12:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=266"},"modified":"2014-01-04T20:58:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T01:58:48","slug":"lord-bolliets-alcoholic-haze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/lord-bolliets-alcoholic-haze\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord Bolliet&#8217;s Alcoholic Haze"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-13\" title=\"j-avatar\" alt=\"by jen\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/j-avatar.png\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>a still-damp, raw-boned gelding<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px;\">had not seen any &#8220;girls&#8221; at the house<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px;\">in London or Kent he could have obtained<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px;\">French breeding &#8212; but<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px;\">Lord Bolliet&#8217;s alcoholic haze<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Lord Bolliet&#8217;s alcoholic haze<\/em> made it difficult for him to disguise his aristocratic <em>French breeding &#8212; but<\/em> his very life depended on it this dangerous evening. The revolutionaries were on the hunt tonight. <em>In London or Kent he could have obtained<\/em> forged travel papers, but here in Canterbury he had no allies, no one to turn to in his time of desperation. All the ale he&#8217;d imbibed made him feel like <em>a still-damp, raw-boned gelding<\/em> on the way to the glue factory. Bolliet shook his head, not for the first time, and returned to his solitary vigil. He hoped to find a safe place to hide for a few days and \u00a0had set his sights upon the rundown inn across the lane. So far he <em>had not seen any &#8220;girls&#8221; at the house<\/em>, but did not fully trust his ale-sozzled faculties and, so, determined to crouch in the hedgerow a while longer.<\/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>a still-damp, raw-boned gelding had not seen any &#8220;girls&#8221; at the house in London or Kent he could have obtained French breeding &#8212; but Lord Bolliet&#8217;s alcoholic haze Lord Bolliet&#8217;s alcoholic haze made it difficult for him to disguise his aristocratic French breeding &#8212; but his very life depended on it this dangerous evening. The [&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":[330,295,333],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-alcohol","tag-foreign-lands","tag-royalty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","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=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/2094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}