{"id":6309,"date":"2019-03-27T08:22:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T12:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=6309"},"modified":"2019-03-24T21:27:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T01:27:14","slug":"times-a-wasting-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/times-a-wasting-general\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Time&#8217;s A-Wasting, General&#8221;"},"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\" \/>partially filled with wine<\/li>\n<li>does not mean I can\u2019t recognize a sad French clown when I see one<\/li>\n<li>running towards us with a test-tube in his hand<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Who says I have intentions?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>over and done with before happy hour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 374 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Time&#8217;s a-wasting, General,&#8221; my wife said. &#8220;Eat up. I want to have this <em>over and done with before happy hour<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I looked at the grapes, knowing it had been she who arranged them to spell that message. &#8220;Think of your station, Fleur. This is a public place. Perhaps not an ideal venue for me to comply with your intentions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Who says I have intentions?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do,&#8221; I replied wearily. I gestured to the plate in front of me. &#8220;And the grapes back me up on it.&#8221; I sighed. &#8220;And with the way my luck has been lately, we&#8217;ll no sooner get started than some zealot will come <em>running towards us with a test-tube in his hand<\/em>, trying to intercept my delivery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You are no doubt correct,&#8221; Fleur surprised me by saying. &#8220;It will be him, the spy I pointed out to you. I haven&#8217;t been to Paris in many years, and of course he&#8217;s wiped away his face paint, but all of that <em>does not mean I can&#8217;t recognize a sad French clown when I see one<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The last clown I&#8217;d seen up close had been Titania, who was neither sad nor French, at least not when she left.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eat the grapes, husband. You&#8217;ll like them. Being grown in the Inimical vineyards, they are already <em>partially filled with wine<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>bonus points for using them in reverse 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>partially filled with wine does not mean I can\u2019t recognize a sad French clown when I see one running towards us with a test-tube in his hand &#8220;Who says I have intentions?\u201d over and done with before happy hour Tune in next time part 374 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments &#8220;Time&#8217;s a-wasting, General,&#8221; [&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":[91,142,403],"class_list":["post-6309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-clown","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309","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=6309"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6316,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309\/revisions\/6316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}