{"id":433,"date":"2012-09-26T08:09:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T12:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=433"},"modified":"2014-01-04T20:55:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T01:55:48","slug":"changa-wasnt-really-his-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/changa-wasnt-really-his-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Changa Wasn&#8217;t Really His Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-24\" title=\"k-avatar\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/k-avatar.png\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>his rodent-like face<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px;\">the shrieking of something<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px;\">to whom he was married<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px;\">another man&#8217;s flesh<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px;\">slid from his belt<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px;\">in his rubbery grip<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Changa wasn&#8217;t really his wife, she was just the person <em>to whom he was married<\/em> at age five in the tradition of his people. All he recalled of the ceremony was itchy clothes and <em>the shrieking of something<\/em> about eternal honor and sacrifice. The stunned newlyweds had been compelled to kiss, and then avoided each other for the next twelve years.<\/p>\n<p>Now Changa was hot. The kind of hot that makes you sweat. As she strolled through the market, the broom felt heavy<em> in his rubbery grip<\/em>. Urgency <em>slid from his belt<\/em>, and he had to be alone for a minute.<\/p>\n<p>He hated the idea of her tasting <em>another man&#8217;s flesh<\/em>, kissing <em>his rodent-like face<\/em>. Anger darkened his world.<\/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>his rodent-like face the shrieking of something to whom he was married another man&#8217;s flesh slid from his belt in his rubbery grip Changa wasn&#8217;t really his wife, she was just the person to whom he was married at age five in the tradition of his people. All he recalled of the ceremony was itchy [&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":[341,54,71],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-clothes","tag-kiss","tag-spouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","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=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}