{"id":3998,"date":"2016-08-31T08:36:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T12:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=3998"},"modified":"2016-11-09T17:15:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T22:15:53","slug":"although-the-first-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/although-the-first-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Although the First Line"},"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\" \/>left to sink or swim<\/li>\n<li>I\u00a0abhor the dull routine of existence<\/li>\n<li>and other oligarchs<\/li>\n<li>prying and adjusting and arranging<\/li>\n<li>But my best friend tried to kill me<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 106<\/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>Although the first line sounded a little tentative, and my voice wasn&#8217;t properly warmed up, I felt proud of the song I improvised for Myxolemia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seems I&#8217;m always <em>left to sink or swim<\/em>,<br \/>\nby some despotic ruler&#8217;s whim.<br \/>\nIf sometimes\u00a0I put up too much resistance,<br \/>\nit&#8217;s just because <em>I abhor the dull routine of existence<\/em>.<br \/>\nMy marriage is like swimming with sharks,<br \/>\nmaking me related to a lunatic <em>and other oligarchs<\/em>.<br \/>\nThe traditional underwear of this place is deranging,<br \/>\nrequires too much <em>prying and adjusting and arranging<\/em>.<br \/>\nI try to be optimistic about what my fate will be.<br \/>\n<em>But my best friend tried to kill me<\/em>.&#8221;<\/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>left to sink or swim I\u00a0abhor the dull routine of existence and other oligarchs prying and adjusting and arranging But my best friend tried to kill me Tune in next time part 106\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Click Here for Earlier Installments Although the first line [&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":[91,454,403],"class_list":["post-3998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-song","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998","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=3998"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4356,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions\/4356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}