{"id":4487,"date":"2016-12-26T08:17:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T13:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=4487"},"modified":"2016-12-27T16:44:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T21:44:21","slug":"now-that-youve-checked-santa-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/now-that-youve-checked-santa-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Now That You&#8217;ve Checked Santa Off Your To-Kiss List"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/j-avatar-e1443983489508.png\" alt=\"by jen\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>only full-blooded Navajo<\/li>\n<li>a vast subterranean chamber of horrors<\/li>\n<li>reflection of its luminous rays<\/li>\n<li>Ahem.<\/li>\n<li>and you\u2019re still not dancing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 139\u00a0<\/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>&#8220;Now that you&#8217;ve checked Santa off your To-Kiss\u00a0list, Freya, I think <em>only full-blooded Navajo<\/em> is left.&#8221; I shot a glance at Mr Claus&#8217;s tattoo before his beard covered it again, hoping it was not a twin to my own. It wasn&#8217;t, and instead depicted <em>a vast subterranean chamber of horrors<\/em>, a Hellscape overhung by a giant bloody sun, the\u00a0writhing flames a <em>reflection of its luminous rays<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Santa said, &#8220;<em>Ahem.\u00a0<\/em>My eyes are up here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Freya smoothed his beard and kissed the tip of his nose, then leapt to her feet. &#8220;Mother sent me to find you,&#8221; she explained to me. &#8220;She says, and I quote, &#8216;Thor is a huge disappointment as president, <em>and you&#8217;re still not dancing<\/em> fast enough.'&#8221; Freya shrugged. &#8220;She said you&#8217;d know what she meant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I knew all right. I knew, and I didn&#8217;t like it one little bit.<\/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>only full-blooded Navajo a vast subterranean chamber of horrors reflection of its luminous rays Ahem. and you\u2019re still not dancing Tune in next time part 139\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments &#8220;Now that you&#8217;ve checked Santa off your To-Kiss\u00a0list, Freya, I think only [&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":[91,468,350,403],"class_list":["post-4487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-santa","tag-sister","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487","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=4487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4491,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions\/4491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}