{"id":5633,"date":"2018-05-14T08:38:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T12:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=5633"},"modified":"2018-12-29T14:43:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T19:43:50","slug":"i-could-no-longer-smell-the-sewage-we-were-adrift-upon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-could-no-longer-smell-the-sewage-we-were-adrift-upon\/","title":{"rendered":"I Could No Longer Smell the Sewage We Were Adrift Upon"},"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\" \/>but because of the fog<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe can work this out.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>smell the woodsmoke<\/li>\n<li>the tune was Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer<\/li>\n<li>aspect of Wikipedia that I dislike<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 283 \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>I could no longer smell the sewage we were adrift upon, <em>but because of the fog<\/em> that rose from it I was unable to forget it was there. When we finally escaped I would have to take, just, like, all the showers.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla napped, curled up on her side of the swan boat&#8217;s bench. I wanted to wake her up and work with her to figure out a way out of our dilemma. I would say something really persuasive and motivating like, <em>&#8220;We can work this out.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>But Tesla was a sound sleeper and so I didn&#8217;t get a chance to even try before we rounded a long, lazy corner and I could finally see the light at the end of the sewer pipe. We were so close to freedom I could even <em>smell the woodsmoke <\/em>coming in through the grate.<\/p>\n<p>Our swan came to a sludgy stop against the grate. I left Tesla sleeping while I peered out and tried to make sense of what I saw. We were still on my brothers&#8217; island, of course, so I had to be careful.<\/p>\n<p>The smoke came from an enormous bonfire around which danced a dozen mimes in ceremonial garb. The song was one I&#8217;d heard many times growing up. The lyrics, sung by someone I couldn&#8217;t see, were nothing you&#8217;d recognize, but <em>the tune was Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I tried once to research this song, but all trace of it had been erased from the internet. That is the <em>aspect of Wikipedia that I dislike<\/em> the most, its willingness to delete any page that the Guild of Fire Eaters demands.<\/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>but because of the fog \u201cWe can work this out.\u201d smell the woodsmoke the tune was Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer aspect of Wikipedia that I dislike Tune in next time part 283 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments I could no longer smell the [&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":[357,91,112,403],"class_list":["post-5633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-boat","tag-bonus-points","tag-mime","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633","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=5633"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6144,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633\/revisions\/6144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}