{"id":2757,"date":"2015-02-18T08:22:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T13:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2015-02-02T19:31:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T00:31:35","slug":"it-takes-a-lot-of-oomph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/it-takes-a-lot-of-oomph\/","title":{"rendered":"It Takes A Lot of Oomph"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><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\" \/>the mother of an 18-month-old daughter<\/li>\n<li>propel a converted atomic submarine into space<\/li>\n<li>Because it&#8217;s the latter.<\/li>\n<li>&#8212; what is another word for POOP? &#8212;<\/li>\n<li>daughter receives a valuable present<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It takes a lot of oomph to <em>propel a converted atomic submarine into space<\/em>, as Giselle found out last Tuesday. That morning she was just <em>the mother of an 18-month-old daughter<\/em>, but by dinnertime she was an admiral of sorts. Her little Elizabeth, or Bitty as she was known, was a source of more than enough oomph to get the job done.<\/p>\n<p>Giselle had been asked to document how the feat was accomplished, but writing memos had never been her strong suit. &#8220;The power for liftoff was obtained from a dense deposit of Bitty&#8217;s business,&#8221; she explained to the patient boatswain. He lifted one eyebrow and asked, &#8220;&#8216;Business&#8217;? Can&#8217;t you be more precise?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well then help me write this!&#8221; Giselle implored. &#8220;It came from her diaper, for gosh sakes, but I can&#8217;t say&#8230; I mean there are some words that just don&#8217;t belong in an official memo! But my brain&#8217;s seized up <em>&#8212; what is another word for POOP? &#8212;<\/em> and I can&#8217;t think clearly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The handsome boatswain smiled warmly. &#8220;Zero gravity sometimes affects mental acuity, and so does the stress of parenthood. In your case, you shouldn&#8217;t worry. <em>Because it&#8217;s the latter<\/em>. When a beautiful young mother&#8217;s <em>daughter receives a valuable present<\/em>, it can be quite distracting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So you agree with me that Bitty&#8217;s too little to command her own vessel?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sure you know what&#8217;s best. Perhaps we can address that topic in a later paragraph.&#8221;<\/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>the mother of an 18-month-old daughter propel a converted atomic submarine into space Because it&#8217;s the latter. &#8212; what is another word for POOP? &#8212; daughter receives a valuable present It takes a lot of oomph to propel a converted atomic submarine into space, as Giselle found out last Tuesday. That morning she was just [&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],"tags":[354,271,387],"class_list":["post-2757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","tag-daughter","tag-scifi","tag-submarine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757","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=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2761,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}