{"id":2886,"date":"2015-05-04T08:32:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T12:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2015-05-03T16:59:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T20:59:12","slug":"pembrokes-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/pembrokes-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Pembroke&#8217;s Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>enter the full bloom of his awkward rebellious phase<\/li>\n<li>half hidden in a heap of brown leaves<\/li>\n<li>carry their lunches in clamshells<\/li>\n<li>college campuses everywhere<\/li>\n<li>annoyed at the tone taken by the anthropologists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pembroke&#8217;s parents dragged him along on a very long and thorough tour of northeastern universities, convinced they would discover the perfect scholastic garden in which their darling son could <em>enter the full bloom of his awkward rebellious phase<\/em> under the watchful eye of learned professionals who would keep his intellect from going to seed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>College campuses everywhere<\/em> look the same in the fall,&#8221; Pembroke\u00a0grumbled. &#8220;They&#8217;re all just a bunch of brick buildings surrounding squares of grass <em>half hidden in a heap of brown leaves<\/em>.&#8221; He kicked at a crack in the sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p>Pembroke&#8217;s mother did her best to distract him from his sullen mood. &#8220;Look Pemmy, the sorority girls here <em>carry their lunches in clamshells<\/em>! Isn&#8217;t that adorable?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You sound like a clueless anthropologist, Mom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pembroke&#8217;s mother smiled indulgently, but inside she was <em>annoyed at the tone taken by the anthropologists<\/em>&#8216; teenage critic.<\/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>enter the full bloom of his awkward rebellious phase half hidden in a heap of brown leaves carry their lunches in clamshells college campuses everywhere annoyed at the tone taken by the anthropologists Pembroke&#8217;s parents dragged him along on a very long and thorough tour of northeastern universities, convinced they would discover the perfect scholastic [&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":[263,331],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-field-trip","tag-parent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","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=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2892,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/2892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}