{"id":445,"date":"2012-10-08T08:13:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T12:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=445"},"modified":"2014-01-04T20:55:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T01:55:16","slug":"under-the-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/under-the-hood\/","title":{"rendered":"Under The Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During October we will be sharing passages that we&#8217;ve written independently from the same prompt.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>under the hood<\/li>\n<li>devastating fire<\/li>\n<li>don&#8217;t punish me for being scared<\/li>\n<li>Your stranger-self<\/li>\n<li>legs of my corduroys<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Jen&#8217;s Take<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  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\" \/>Under the <\/em><em>hood<\/em>ie, her red hair took on the smoky shadows of a <em>devastating fire<\/em> and her green eyes glinted, causing the <em>legs of my corduroys<\/em> to suddenly seem inadequate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is that a pistol in your pocket,&#8221; she asked, &#8220;or are you just happy to see me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dammit. I was hoping she wouldn&#8217;t notice. This was my first time meeting someone in person whom I&#8217;d chatted with online.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Don&#8217;t punish me for being scared<\/em>,&#8221; I pleaded, sounding utterly pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>She smiled disdainfully. &#8220;<em>Your stranger-self<\/em> was more interesting online.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kent&#8217;s Take<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-24\" title=\"k-avatar\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/k-avatar.png\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>Your stranger-self<\/em> can be terrifying, so <em>don&#8217;t punish me for being scared<\/em> when I saw it the first time. It inflamed my flight impulse, and, as I ran, the friction in the <em>legs of my corduroys<\/em> kindled a <em>devastating fire<\/em>, until I had to stop and quench those writhing flames. And so you caught up, no longer the stranger but just yourself, with soft brown eyes peering quietly from <em>under the hood<\/em> of your sweatshirt.<\/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<p>What do you think? Who handled this prompt better?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During October we will be sharing passages that we&#8217;ve written independently from the same prompt. under the hood devastating fire don&#8217;t punish me for being scared Your stranger-self legs of my corduroys Jen&#8217;s Take Under the hoodie, her red hair took on the smoky shadows of a devastating fire and her green eyes glinted, causing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,4],"tags":[341,180,88],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-clothes","tag-seduction","tag-shared-prompt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2067,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/2067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}