{"id":5644,"date":"2018-05-18T08:30:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T12:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=5644"},"modified":"2018-05-14T22:55:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T02:55:06","slug":"weve-made-a-huge-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/weve-made-a-huge-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve Made a Huge Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-41\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/r-avatar-e1443983880436.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>Or rather, a very tiny one. Our tactical blunder\u2019s name is the Bandit Lord, and as you can see he\u2019s made of trouble.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5648 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2720-e1526352737537-176x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2720-e1526352737537-176x300.jpg 176w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2720-e1526352737537-768x1312.jpg 768w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2720-e1526352737537-599x1024.jpg 599w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2720-e1526352737537.jpg 1663w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/>For those of you who\u2019ve never had a young Bandit Lord around the Writing Cave, or the house, let us warn you that if you fall prey to one you will never again accomplish anything besides keeping the young Bandit Lord from destroying everything you hold dear.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to running interference between the Bandit Lord and Lady Marzipan, we\u2019ve been on constant alert for tiny teeth gnawing on electrical cords, wastebaskets, socks, carpets, zippers, our fingers\u2026 the list is infinite. His current schedule is chaotic, to put it charitably, which makes it very difficult to carve out uninterrupted writing time. We\u2019re currently experimenting with working in shifts. One of us follows the Bandit Lord around his kingdom, putting out fires and appeasing the peasants, while the other retreats to the Writing Cave and tries to knock out a few hundred words. It\u2019s really not the most efficient way to write a novel, but it\u2019s better than nothing. And all too soon the Bandit Lord will be a haughty and merciless overlord.<\/p>\n<p>You can see it in his face.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5646 alignleft\" style=\"caret-color: #444444; font-size: 16px;\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2647-e1526352802124-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2647-e1526352802124-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2647-e1526352802124-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2647-e1526352802124-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2647-e1526352802124-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or rather, a very tiny one. Our tactical blunder\u2019s name is the Bandit Lord, and as you can see he\u2019s made of trouble. For those of you who\u2019ve never had a young Bandit Lord around the Writing Cave, or the house, let us warn you that if you fall prey to one you will never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321],"tags":[507],"class_list":["post-5644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bumps-bruises","tag-tactical-blunder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644","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=5644"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5649,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions\/5649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}