{"id":2975,"date":"2015-06-15T08:21:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T12:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2975"},"modified":"2015-06-13T15:36:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T19:36:55","slug":"blaine-approached-the-tennis-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/blaine-approached-the-tennis-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaine Approached the Tennis Court"},"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\" \/>in small gold letters<\/li>\n<li>five minutes or an hour<\/li>\n<li>your love was just a game<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLet him speak!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>so weak and emaciated<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Blaine approached the tennis court bleachers\u00a0where Lucille sat with her gaggle of girlfriends, watching the match. She saw him coming and stood to leave, but Gertrude grabbed her by the elbow and said, <em>&#8220;Let him speak!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It mattered not if he spoke for <em>five minutes or an hour<\/em>, Blaine\u00a0knew he had no hope of winning her back, so he read the speech he had prepared ahead of time which was printed <em>in small gold letters<\/em> on an index card and cupped in the palm of his left hand.\u00a0&#8220;<em>Your love was just a game<\/em>, Lucille, like tennis, and I <em>so weak and emaciated<\/em> from the nonstop playing of it that I could not help but lose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And with what little dignity he still possessed, he turned and strode away, leaving Gertrude and the others all awhisper.<\/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>in small gold letters five minutes or an hour your love was just a game \u201cLet him speak!\u201d so weak and emaciated Blaine approached the tennis court bleachers\u00a0where Lucille sat with her gaggle of girlfriends, watching the match. She saw him coming and stood to leave, but Gertrude grabbed her by the elbow and said, [&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":[347],"class_list":["post-2975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975","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=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2982,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions\/2982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}