{"id":5529,"date":"2018-03-21T08:48:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T12:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=5529"},"modified":"2024-03-24T18:47:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T22:47:35","slug":"the-list-of-things-you-must-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/the-list-of-things-you-must-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"The List of Things You Must Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/k-avatar-e1443983846496.png\" alt=\"by Kent\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>a man that knows the secrets of a persimmon<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThis is extreme right here.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>the sun, the surf, the primal fiery beauty<\/li>\n<li>normal human body<\/li>\n<li>I left my brothers there<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 268 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/b><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The list of things you must learn if you want to succeed in a life of espionage is very long, and many of them are various ways of passing information. The pianist&#8217;s code, for example. But even more important is the skill of distinguishing the true message from the ruse, which was what the pianist&#8217;s code turned out to be this time.<\/p>\n<p>The tart undercurrent of Tesla&#8217;s kiss conveyed a hidden meaning, one I might have overlooked if I weren&#8217;t <em>a man that knows the secrets of a persimmon<\/em>. Tesla whispered, <em>&#8220;This is extreme right here.&#8221;<\/em> It was unmistakably a signal phrase, and she was waiting for the countersign. Taking the persimmon-tinged mime lipstick out of the equation, the obvious correct response would be, &#8220;Because of <em>the sun, the surf, the primal fiery beauty<\/em> of the volcanoes.&#8221; But Tesla didn&#8217;t want to hear that. She was listening for me to confirm that I caught that additional flavorful signal, so I had to apply the persimmon factor.<\/p>\n<p>It had been years since I had to do that in the field, and it was taking me a long time. Seconds flew by as she stared into my eyes, waiting. At last I murmured, &#8220;To think it was once a <em>normal human body<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her smile told me my answer, though tardy, was accurate. She whispered again, a short coded poem that signified a place name. I assumed it was where the sub was headed, and when I puzzled out the coordinates I felt a chill. I hadn&#8217;t been to that place in a very long time. Not since <em>I left my brothers there<\/em>.<\/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>a man that knows the secrets of a persimmon \u201cThis is extreme right here.\u201d the sun, the surf, the primal fiery beauty normal human body I left my brothers there Tune in next time part 268 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments The list [&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":[91,403],"class_list":["post-5529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5529","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=5529"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10012,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5529\/revisions\/10012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}