{"id":2899,"date":"2015-05-11T08:32:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T12:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2015-05-09T14:06:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T18:06:43","slug":"i-stand-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-stand-in-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"I Stand in the Rain"},"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\" \/>can&#8217;t you hear the thunder?<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;You shut up!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>one gold, one black<\/li>\n<li>brown skin and a flat skull<\/li>\n<li>Leonard is a strange person<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I stand in the rain, gazing\u00a0at the man beside me.<em>\u00a0Leonard is a strange person<\/em>, but undeniably\u00a0attractive. His eyes entrance me, <em>one gold, one black<\/em>, nestled in <em>brown skin and a flat skull<\/em> like faberge eggs in an ornate display case.<\/p>\n<p>I try to tell him I love him, but he leans in close. &#8220;<em>Can&#8217;t you hear the thunder?<\/em>&#8221; he whispers in my ear, making me shiver. &#8220;That rumbling is Zeus&#8217;s way of saying <em>&#8216;You shut up!&#8217;<\/em> to us mortals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I try once more to speak. Leonard&#8217;s\u00a0ornately colored eyes hold mine and he lays\u00a0his finger across my lips. &#8220;Shhh,&#8221; he breathes, &#8220;you don&#8217;t want to anger Zeus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And he&#8217;s right. I don&#8217;t. I lean in and press my lips to his just as a bright bolt of lightning illuminates the sky.<\/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>can&#8217;t you hear the thunder? &#8220;You shut up!&#8221; one gold, one black brown skin and a flat skull Leonard is a strange person I stand in the rain, gazing\u00a0at the man beside me.\u00a0Leonard is a strange person, but undeniably\u00a0attractive. His eyes entrance me, one gold, one black, nestled in brown skin and a flat skull [&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":[54,309,180,81,238],"class_list":["post-2899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-kiss","tag-religion","tag-seduction","tag-skull","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899","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=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2907,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions\/2907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}