{"id":2990,"date":"2015-06-22T08:08:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T12:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2015-06-20T17:32:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T21:32:51","slug":"fletcher-made-the-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/fletcher-made-the-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Fletcher Made the Mistake"},"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\" \/>explosives placed inside<\/li>\n<li>regarding the stranger as a harmless lunatic<\/li>\n<li>within the system<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;No grownups!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>the sacred lotus flower<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fletcher made the mistake of <em>regarding the stranger as a harmless lunatic<\/em>, one of those poor unfortunates who can&#8217;t really get along <em>within the system<\/em> of society, but pose no real danger. It was a mistake he would regret until\u00a0the day he died, even after his mind atrophied and his once magnificent intellect devolved to a childlike state that compelled him to build forts out of couch cushions and yell,<em> &#8220;No grownups!&#8221;<\/em> any time a nurse or orderly approached with his medication. The stranger was definitely a lunatic, but he was anything but harmless.<em> The sacred lotus flower<\/em>\u00a0he carried past Fletcher&#8217;s security post that fateful day had enough high-grade <em>explosives placed inside<\/em> to flatten a city block, so the circus tent stood no chance. No chance at all.<\/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>explosives placed inside regarding the stranger as a harmless lunatic within the system &#8220;No grownups!&#8221; the sacred lotus flower Fletcher made the mistake of regarding the stranger as a harmless lunatic, one of those poor unfortunates who can&#8217;t really get along within the system of society, but pose no real danger. It was a mistake [&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":[273,312,332,369],"class_list":["post-2990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bloodbath","tag-circus","tag-crime","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990","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=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3005,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions\/3005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}