{"id":3893,"date":"2016-07-13T08:12:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T12:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=3893"},"modified":"2016-11-09T17:09:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T22:09:53","slug":"i-explained-my-proposition-bluntly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-explained-my-proposition-bluntly\/","title":{"rendered":"I Explained My Proposition Bluntly"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/k-avatar-e1443983846496.png\" alt=\"by Kent\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>So a Spanish lady one time<\/li>\n<li>only a hunter of the eider duck<\/li>\n<li>plenty of myopic, gung-ho investors<\/li>\n<li>out with friends<\/li>\n<li>was a very funny man<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 93<\/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>I explained my proposition bluntly, knowing Fleur didn&#8217;t have any reason to mind what I got up to with her sister. Isolde fluttered her eyelashes with a playful smile.<\/p>\n<p>Fleur also smiled, but it was chilly. &#8220;<em>So a Spanish lady one time<\/em> found that her nephew was also her son&#8217;s half-brother. Shortly after that the boy was an orphan, so she adopted him. I always admired how that Spanish lady behaved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My doily settled onto my lap.<\/p>\n<p>Isolde laughed and left the tent.<\/p>\n<p>Fleur laughed as well. &#8220;You are <em>only a hunter of the eider duck<\/em>, so leave the swans alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was an old Contrarian expression, usually applied in financial contexts but apropos here as well. In the 1970s, <em>plenty of myopic, gung-ho investors<\/em> lost their fortunes on Contrarian pillow futures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Father&#8217;s waiting,&#8221; Fleur prompted. &#8220;He grows impatient to be <em>out with friends<\/em>, in with enemies.&#8221; Another old saying from her homeland. &#8220;I can&#8217;t wait to show you Grandfather&#8217;s mausoleum. He <em>was a very funny man<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She stared me down, waiting for me to realize she meant to pack me off to Contraria with her.<\/p>\n<p>bonus points for using them in 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>So a Spanish lady one time only a hunter of the eider duck plenty of myopic, gung-ho investors out with friends was a very funny man Tune in next time part 93\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Click Here for Earlier Installments I explained my proposition bluntly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,4],"tags":[91,444,403],"class_list":["post-3893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-doily","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3893"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4350,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893\/revisions\/4350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}