{"id":5800,"date":"2018-08-08T08:08:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T12:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=5800"},"modified":"2018-08-10T13:53:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T17:53:33","slug":"wearing-sweaty-jodhpurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wearing-sweaty-jodhpurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Wearing Sweaty Jodhpurs"},"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\" \/>just 113 kinds of atoms<\/li>\n<li>the crime of performing a protest song<\/li>\n<li>like pumpernickel bread<\/li>\n<li>the lies he told and the photographs he took<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMagnificent!\u201d I replied, with a good imitation of enthusiasm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 308 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wearing sweaty jodhpurs two sizes too big is unpleasant, especially when it&#8217;s someone else&#8217;s sweat. But had they been less sweaty, they&#8217;d have been incinerated in the torch flame.<\/p>\n<p>Jove spluttered, and Carla boggled. I ignored them and stuck my arms into my stolen boots. I waddled out of the hut, my damp, warm, floppy pants slapping my hamstrings with every stride. As I came into view of the horde outside, I raised my arms to present the dusty soles of the shiny boots.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite amazing what can be cooked up using<em> just 113 kinds of atoms<\/em>. The residue on the soles of Jove&#8217;s boots was just a byproduct, but those outside recognized it. They felt its radiation and knew what it meant, and they cowered before it. To challenge the boots was as bad as <em>the crime of performing a protest song<\/em>. These boots had trod the assembly line where things were&#8230; assembled. Complex things, <em>like pumpernickel bread<\/em>. Good things, also like pumpernickel bread. And powerfully bad things, like <em>the lies he told and the photographs he took<\/em> when Jove overthrew the island&#8217;s previous baron.<\/p>\n<p>The Fire Eaters bowed low, and the TechnoPagans covered their eyes.<\/p>\n<p>One of them spoke, asking, &#8220;How go the sacrifices?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Magnificent!&#8221; I replied, with a good imitation of enthusiasm<\/em>. &#8220;Magnificent<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ly<\/span>,&#8221; I amended. &#8220;Now it is time for launch!&#8221;<\/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>just 113 kinds of atoms the crime of performing a protest song like pumpernickel bread the lies he told and the photographs he took \u201cMagnificent!\u201d I replied, with a good imitation of enthusiasm Tune in next time part 308 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments Wearing sweaty jodhpurs two sizes too big is unpleasant, [&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":[91,341,403],"class_list":["post-5800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-clothes","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5800","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=5800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5805,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5800\/revisions\/5805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}