{"id":424,"date":"2012-09-17T08:39:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T12:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=424"},"modified":"2014-01-04T20:56:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T01:56:14","slug":"you-told-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/you-told-me\/","title":{"rendered":"You Told Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-13\" title=\"j-avatar\" alt=\"by jen\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/j-avatar.png\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>I spat at her<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px;\">&#8220;Oh my head!&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px;\">but Charles had no son<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px;\">dropped her ample chin<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px;\">a madman&#8217;s mocking game<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px;\">the butler put my cloak<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;You told me that Charles and his son were conspiring to make a fool of me, Mother! You said he did not love me! That it was nothing more than <em>a madman&#8217;s mocking game<\/em>! <em>But Charles had no son<\/em>, and no daughter either.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My mother <em>dropped her ample chin<\/em> to her even more ample bosom and moaned, <em>&#8220;Oh my head!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I spat at her<\/em> and stormed away to find where <em>the butler put my cloak<\/em>. I never wanted to see my filthy, lying mother again.<\/p>\n<p>I would marry Charles, no matter that he was 40 years older than I, and my mother&#8217;s object of obsession.<\/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>I spat at her &#8220;Oh my head!&#8221; but Charles had no son dropped her ample chin a madman&#8217;s mocking game the butler put my cloak &#8220;You told me that Charles and his son were conspiring to make a fool of me, Mother! You said he did not love me! That it was nothing more than [&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":[331,347],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-parent","tag-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","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=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/2080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}