{"id":65,"date":"2012-06-13T08:19:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T12:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2014-01-04T20:52:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T01:52:34","slug":"i-always-used-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-always-used-to\/","title":{"rendered":"I Always Used To"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>great hammer blows<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-24\" style=\"color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 4px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 24px; display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"k-avatar\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/k-avatar.png\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/><\/li>\n<li>I always used to envy children<\/li>\n<li>my father&#8217;s arrogant stride<\/li>\n<li>with that horse face<\/li>\n<li>this surely must be a sin<\/li>\n<li>they glowed crimson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>I always used to envy children<\/em> whose parents seemed normal, whereas my mother&#8217;s sinister leer was overshadowed only by <em>my father&#8217;s arrogant stride<\/em>. Mother&#8217;s leer was really something, <em>with that horse face<\/em> sporting eyes like a denizen of the depths &#8212; <em>they glowed crimson<\/em>. So, that should help put father&#8217;s arrogance into perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Even today I blame them for where I wound up, doing body make-up on second-tier professional wrestlers. Casting blame, <em>this surely must be a sin<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s client insists on eating while I bronze his quads. <em>Great Hammer blows<\/em> on his soup, and my belly growls. I can&#8217;t eat until he&#8217;s in the ring.<\/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>great hammer blows I always used to envy children my father&#8217;s arrogant stride with that horse face this surely must be a sin they glowed crimson I always used to envy children whose parents seemed normal, whereas my mother&#8217;s sinister leer was overshadowed only by my father&#8217;s arrogant stride. Mother&#8217;s leer was really something, with [&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":[342,30,331,307,346],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-food","tag-great-hammer","tag-parent","tag-sin","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","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=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2056,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/2056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}