{"id":48,"date":"2012-06-10T00:54:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T04:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2014-01-04T20:52:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T01:52:06","slug":"48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/48\/","title":{"rendered":"When My Brother Arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>nothing that would offend me<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\" \/><\/li>\n<li>My manservant read to him<\/li>\n<li>decorated with red leather stitching<\/li>\n<li>and another with lust<\/li>\n<li>with a rueful chuckle<\/li>\n<li>He abuses your trust<\/li>\n<li>annoyed and proud at once<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When my brother arrived for his visit he wore the boots <em>decorated with red leather stitching<\/em> that were his inheritance from our father. He was <em>annoyed and proud at once<\/em>, for those boots were Father&#8217;s most prized possessions, yet were worth very little monetarily when compared to the family estate which was left to me.<\/p>\n<p><em>My manservant read to him<\/em> two stories, as he requested, one with daring deeds <em>and another with lust<\/em>. &#8220;But,&#8221; my brother said <em>with a rueful chuckle<\/em>, &#8220;<em>nothing that would offend me<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Once my brother was asleep, my manservant came to me and said, &#8220;<em>He abuses your trust<\/em>. Those are not, in fact, the boots of your father.&#8221;<\/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><strong>from the comments, Jen has another take on the same prompt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to hear a story,\u201d the old priest demanded. \u201cBut <em>nothing that would offend me<\/em>, if you please.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His request made me feel both <em>annoyed and proud at once<\/em>, so I had <em>my manservant read to him<\/em> from the big black book <em>decorated with red leather stitching<\/em> that has been in my family for countless generations.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards the priest took me aside to gossip about my manservant. \u201c<em>He abuses your trust<\/em>,\u201d he said <em>with a rueful chuckle<\/em>. \u201cI smelled alcohol on his breath. He read one story with vice in it, <em>and another with lust<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I nodded, secretly pleased that my manservant had done just as I told him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>nothing that would offend me My manservant read to him decorated with red leather stitching and another with lust with a rueful chuckle He abuses your trust annoyed and proud at once When my brother arrived for his visit he wore the boots decorated with red leather stitching that were his inheritance from our father. [&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":[24,341,355,23,331,40],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-brother","tag-clothes","tag-double-dip","tag-manservant","tag-parent","tag-shoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","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=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2052,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/2052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}