{"id":3891,"date":"2016-07-11T08:14:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T12:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=3891"},"modified":"2016-11-09T17:10:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T22:10:09","slug":"with-much-effort-i-kept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/with-much-effort-i-kept\/","title":{"rendered":"With Much Effort I Kept the Revulsion From My Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/j-avatar-e1443983489508.png\" alt=\"by jen\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>confiscated her hip flask<\/li>\n<li>a more appropriate resting place<\/li>\n<li>If you don\u2019t want to cry today<\/li>\n<li>tiny bubbles from his angelic lips<\/li>\n<li>a photograph of Harry\u2019s mother<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 92<\/strong><b>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With much effort I kept the revulsion from my voice. &#8220;That,&#8221; I indicated the gelatinous blob, &#8220;is what the artist has dubbed <em>a photograph of Harry&#8217;s mother<\/em>. Why he calls it a photograph I don&#8217;t know, since it is clearly a sculpture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Isolde and Fleur were impressed at my knowledge. After last year&#8217;s embarrassments, I spent considerable time studying the minutia of Contrarian culture.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have stunned Harry!&#8221; Isolde cried. She indicated the referee looming over me. &#8220;See the spray of <em>tiny bubbles from his angelic lips<\/em>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>If you don&#8217;t want to cry today<\/em>,&#8221; Harry said, &#8220;you will say something flattering about my mother&#8217;s likeness.&#8221; He cracked his riding crop on the sand beside me.<\/p>\n<p>I gulped and stared at the blob on the serving tray. &#8220;There does not exist <em>a more appropriate resting place<\/em> than a bed of silver for a woman such as your mother,&#8221; I stammered. &#8220;Such opulence becomes her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harry roared his laughter, then turned and carried the tray out of the tent.<\/p>\n<p>Isolde pouted\u00a0in a way that I had not seen\u00a0since her father <em>confiscated her hip flask<\/em> at my wedding to Fleur. Clearly she loved Harry and his twisty goatee. There was no other excuse\u00a0for her to consider his lips angelic. Unfortunately for her she thought she would not be free to marry until her eldest sister, my wife, delivered\u00a0an heir.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for me my studies of arcane Contrarian marital law found a loophole.\u00a0The wording could be interpreted\u00a0to mean that she would be marriageable as soon as any\u00a0of the warlord&#8217;s daughters conceived by the eldest&#8217;s husband.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Isolde,&#8221; I began.<\/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>confiscated her hip flask a more appropriate resting place If you don\u2019t want to cry today tiny bubbles from his angelic lips a photograph of Harry\u2019s mother Tune in next time part 92\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Click Here for Earlier Installments With much effort I [&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":[91,350,403],"class_list":["post-3891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-sister","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891","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=3891"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4351,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions\/4351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}