{"id":2672,"date":"2015-01-19T08:26:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T13:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2014-12-06T12:48:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T17:48:41","slug":"2672in-the-ufos-holding-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/2672in-the-ufos-holding-cell\/","title":{"rendered":"In the UFO&#8217;s Holding Cell"},"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\" \/>like a malicious genealogist<\/li>\n<li>the fireflies&#8217; sexual organs<\/li>\n<li>with a jackknife<\/li>\n<li>manners, gestures and physiologies<\/li>\n<li>This was his sole fear<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the UFO&#8217;s holding cell, Kevin felt like a firefly in a jar, like the ones he spent his childhood collecting in the backyard. The alien scientist assured Kevin that he and his race came to\u00a0Earth\u00a0merely to study humankind&#8217;s <em>manners, gestures, and physiologies<\/em>. They had no desire to mate with humans, to tamper with their family tree <em>like a malicious genealogist<\/em>. The alien peered down\u00a0with the same detachment Kevin\u00a0had employed as a child while\u00a0removing <em>the fireflies&#8217; sexual organs<\/em> <em>with a jackknife<\/em>. <em>This was his sole fear<\/em>, that they would treat him the way he had treated those long ago insects.<\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>like a malicious genealogist the fireflies&#8217; sexual organs with a jackknife manners, gestures and physiologies This was his sole fear In the UFO&#8217;s holding cell, Kevin felt like a firefly in a jar, like the ones he spent his childhood collecting in the backyard. The alien scientist assured Kevin that he and his race came [&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":[42,335,271],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-alien","tag-animal","tag-scifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","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=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2684,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions\/2684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}