{"id":2796,"date":"2015-03-09T08:11:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T12:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2015-03-01T15:21:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T20:21:33","slug":"explosion-occurred-at-noon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/explosion-occurred-at-noon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Explosion Occurred at Noon Sharp"},"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\" \/>mouth turned down<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;See ya later.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>his fondness for her<\/li>\n<li>nodding in admiration<\/li>\n<li>all the gasoline on the island<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The explosion occurred at noon sharp, and the fire still raged now at midnight. The sky was a smear of orange and black, like the aftermath of a halloween riot. Mason\u00a0knew <em>all the gasoline on the island<\/em> had been stored at the airfield, the one still blazing nearly 12 hours after Cassandra\u00a0lobbed the first incendiary grenade. Mason couldn&#8217;t help <em>nodding\u00a0in admiration<\/em> of Cassandra&#8217;s efficiency, but <em>his fondness for her<\/em> professionalism did not bleed over into fondness for anything else about her. The woman was ruthless and now Mason and the very rich man he was paid to protect were stranded on the island with her.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke into his walkie-talkie to his employer, safe in the estate&#8217;s panic room. <em>&#8220;See ya later.&#8221;<\/em> He hoped to be told to stand down, to take cover and wait Cassandra out, but no such order came.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mouth turned down<\/em> in a determined frown, Mason checked his weapon and strode into the jungle.<\/p>\n<p>bonus points for using them in reverse order<\/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>mouth turned down &#8220;See ya later.&#8221; his fondness for her nodding in admiration all the gasoline on the island The explosion occurred at noon sharp, and the fire still raged now at midnight. The sky was a smear of orange and black, like the aftermath of a halloween riot. Mason\u00a0knew all the gasoline on 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":[91,215,119,208,172,369,178],"class_list":["post-2796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-foe","tag-gun","tag-island","tag-spy","tag-thriller","tag-vengeance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796","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=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2800,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions\/2800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}