{"id":6804,"date":"2019-10-02T08:22:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T12:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=6804"},"modified":"2019-09-27T23:04:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T03:04:30","slug":"i-barely-had-time-to-get-back-into-uniform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-barely-had-time-to-get-back-into-uniform\/","title":{"rendered":"I Barely Had Time to Get Back Into Uniform"},"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\" \/>a little tune about banana bread<\/li>\n<li>Finding a skull, picking it up,<\/li>\n<li>heels of my new boots<\/li>\n<li>\u201cA fox, it\u2019s called.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>but you have a job to do<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 428 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I barely had time to get back into uniform before the zeppelin docked at Enigma Fortress. Yolanda kept smiling at me in a most unprofessional but endearing manner, and the pilot continued to pretend he could neither see nor hear us, as he&#8217;d been doing for the entire journey.<\/p>\n<p>As I strode out onto the gangway extending from the zeppelin&#8217;s gondola to the wall of the fortress, an honor guard raised ram horns to their lips and blew me a rather brown-sounding fanfare. Then the fortress&#8217;s resident Yodeler, a corporal by the name of Yancy, began the official welcoming ceremony by singing <em>a little tune about banana bread<\/em>. There was a dance to go with it, which I was expected to perform. I scrambled to remember all the steps. It is a dance that tells a story, a symbolic reenactment of the birth of the entire Contrarian Military-Industrial Complex. <em>Finding a skull, picking it up,<\/em> then grinding it to powder under the <em>heels of my new boots<\/em>. Contrarian defense contractors like to focus on dealing with foes who have already been flensed.<\/p>\n<p>My dance moves earned me another inauspicious blast of the horns, and then Yancy led me to my quarters. I pushed open the door and spotted a red blur as something vanished under my bed.<\/p>\n<p>I turned to Yancy for some insight.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;A fox, it&#8217;s called.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I made the universal circular hand gesture for &#8220;go on&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re good luck. Also, if you make friends with it, warm and cuddly in long alpine nights. I&#8217;m sure if you&#8217;re persistent you and the fox will bond, <em>but you have a job to do<\/em> so you might not have that kind of free time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Perhaps I have all the luck I need, and the fox can go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All due respect, General, look where you are. I wouldn&#8217;t turn down any extra luck in your position.&#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>a little tune about banana bread Finding a skull, picking it up, heels of my new boots \u201cA fox, it\u2019s called.\u201d but you have a job to do Tune in next time part 428 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments I barely had time to get back into uniform before the zeppelin docked at [&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":[91,75,403],"class_list":["post-6804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-fox","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804","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=6804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6815,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804\/revisions\/6815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}