{"id":7002,"date":"2020-01-13T08:30:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T13:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=7002"},"modified":"2022-10-21T14:09:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T18:09:43","slug":"what-is-that-racket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/what-is-that-racket\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What is That Racket?&#8221;"},"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\" \/>general costumes<\/li>\n<li>is kinda like cilantro<\/li>\n<li>wearing a long crocheted dress and, I was certain, even from my distance, no brassiere<\/li>\n<li>lunk-headed older brother<\/li>\n<li>dictionary definition of quixotic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 457 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is that racket?&#8221; I asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s the zeppelin detection system,&#8221; said the first guard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Someone is arriving from the capital,&#8221; said the second.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What about the blizzard?&#8221; I asked. The heavy snow was the reason I had been stranded here when my wife summoned me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The royal zeppelins all have flame-throwers,&#8221; said the first guard. &#8220;But of course you know that, General. I suspect you&#8217;re just testing us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, of course.&#8221; Did my zeppelin have a flame thrower? If so, why had everyone pretended I was snowed in? Motioning to Arlo, I said, &#8220;Take this criminal to the stockade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The guards saluted and hustled the whimpering Arlo off. I grabbed a roll of glitter storm tape and returned to my quarters to figure out which of my <em>general costumes<\/em> I should put on now. It would help if I knew exactly who was on the incoming airship. Contrarian military garb <em>is kinda like cilantro<\/em> &#8212; some people enjoy it while others are genetically predisposed to find it repulsive. For the most part I&#8217;m in the former category (who doesn&#8217;t like to look fancy?), but I was getting a little tired of all the quick-changes.<\/p>\n<p>Down the zeppelin&#8217;s gangway waddled a heavily pregnant Isolde. She was not dressed for the weather, <em>wearing a long crocheted dress and, I was certain, even from my distance, no brassiere<\/em>. I couldn&#8217;t fathom what business she had at Enigma Fortress. Shouldn&#8217;t she be somewhere near a maternity hospital, so close to giving birth? And wasn&#8217;t her husband Harry in some sort of trouble? My confusion only grew when I saw who was with her: my rapscallion brother Jim.<\/p>\n<p>The two of them approached and we made all of the appropriate courtly gestures of greeting. Jim stage-whispered to Isolde, &#8220;My<em> lunk-headed older brother<\/em> looks surprised to see us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trying to track all of the inter-familial machinations in my life was the very <em>dictionary definition of quixotic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s get you inside where it&#8217;s warm,&#8221; I said. I may have been acting as Harry&#8217;s proxy when I impregnated Isolde, but my protective impulses toward the children she was carrying were genuine.<\/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>general costumes is kinda like cilantro wearing a long crocheted dress and, I was certain, even from my distance, no brassiere lunk-headed older brother dictionary definition of quixotic Tune in next time part 457 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments &#8220;What is that racket?&#8221; I asked. &#8220;That&#8217;s the zeppelin detection system,&#8221; said the first [&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":[91,341,403,534,486],"class_list":["post-7002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-clothes","tag-tune-in-next-time","tag-yeti","tag-zeppelin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7002","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=7002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8926,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7002\/revisions\/8926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}