{"id":27,"date":"2012-06-09T23:50:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T03:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2014-01-04T20:51:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T01:51:25","slug":"uncle-timothy-despairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/uncle-timothy-despairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Timothy Despairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>her father&#8217;s protege in the city<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-24\" title=\"k-avatar\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/k-avatar.png\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/><\/li>\n<li>choked with seaweed<\/li>\n<li>(she called it fizzy)<\/li>\n<li>a great deal of reviewing<\/li>\n<li>I slithered to the chemist<\/li>\n<li>Uncle Timothy despairs<\/li>\n<li>sometime between 1887 &amp; 1889<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Uncle Timothy despairs<\/em> of finding the antidote in time,&#8221; Salome wept. Timothy was not her real uncle, but a longtime family friend; <em>her father&#8217;s protege in the city<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The inundation had remade the city, and its dwellers. Avenues <em>choked with seaweed<\/em>, corner vendors selling sea cucumber sandwiches to lithe, scaly pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p>My preparations for a sojourn had remade me likewise. <em>I slithered to the chemist<\/em>, the love of my life, Salome, and tried to console her. I knew she would be my salvation &#8212; she already had an effervescent concoction <em>(she called it fizzy)<\/em> that had almost worked.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sometime between 1887 &amp; 1889<\/em>, the comet had grazed our atomsphere&#8230; the answer was in the Farmers&#8217; Almanac, but finding the right pages would entail <em>a great deal of reviewing<\/em>.<\/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>her father&#8217;s protege in the city choked with seaweed (she called it fizzy) a great deal of reviewing I slithered to the chemist Uncle Timothy despairs sometime between 1887 &amp; 1889 &#8220;Uncle Timothy despairs of finding the antidote in time,&#8221; Salome wept. Timothy was not her real uncle, but a longtime family friend; her father&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,4],"tags":[16,342,271,344],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-effervescent-concoction","tag-food","tag-scifi","tag-uncle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2049,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/2049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}