{"id":6568,"date":"2019-06-17T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=6568"},"modified":"2019-06-16T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T22:35:00","slug":"my-commandeered-catamaran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/my-commandeered-catamaran\/","title":{"rendered":"My Commandeered Catamaran"},"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\" \/>negotiate the terms of his surrender<\/li>\n<li>liquid French toast<\/li>\n<li>shoes I never want to walk a mile in<\/li>\n<li>\u2026 nothing but tai chi.<\/li>\n<li>anything except mustaches<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 397 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My commandeered catamaran raced across the waves. I kept my eyes on the sky, searching for Jim&#8217;s zeppelin. Assuming I was able to find him, would I be able to <em>negotiate the terms of his surrender<\/em>? Or would we fight until one of us, hopefully him, was the color and consistency of <em>liquid French toast<\/em>? Jim&#8217;s feet are small, making his footwear <em>shoes I never want to walk a mile in<\/em>, but this had little effect on his fighting prowess. The Academy tried to make him learn various martial arts, but he would do nothing&#8230; <em>nothing but tai chi.<\/em>\u00a0My brother was a tai chi master, and in hand-to-hand (or foot-to-foot) combat, he was invulnerable to <em>anything except mustaches<\/em>. And I probably didn&#8217;t have time to grow an adequate one before our inevitable showdown.<\/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>negotiate the terms of his surrender liquid French toast shoes I never want to walk a mile in \u2026 nothing but tai chi. anything except mustaches Tune in next time part 397 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments My commandeered catamaran raced across the waves. I kept my eyes on the sky, searching for [&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":[357,91,403],"class_list":["post-6568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-boat","tag-bonus-points","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568","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=6568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6571,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568\/revisions\/6571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}