{"id":7132,"date":"2020-03-23T11:29:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T15:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=7132"},"modified":"2020-03-23T11:45:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T15:45:16","slug":"the-himalayan-snowcock-is-not-an-especially-terrifying-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/the-himalayan-snowcock-is-not-an-especially-terrifying-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"The Himalayan Snowcock is Not an Especially Terrifying Bird"},"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\" \/>soiling his opponent\u2019s pants<\/li>\n<li>telling you she loves you<\/li>\n<li>none of the children believed their father<\/li>\n<li>and a haggis<\/li>\n<li>touch the marks on my arms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 477 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Himalayan Snowcock is not an especially terrifying bird. Due to traumatic events in his childhood, though, my nemesis John feared them so violently that hearing their call would often lead to him <em>soiling his opponent&#8217;s pants<\/em> in addition to his own. It was nearly as frightening as my mother <em>telling you she loves you<\/em>, which my siblings and I all dread. She only says that when she wants something from you, and the things she wants are always terrible. In my family, <em>none of the children believed their father<\/em> when he told them that their mother was a misunderstood, kindhearted soul. We all knew she was as ruthless as a wolf that ate both a haggis <em>and a haggis<\/em> maker.<\/p>\n<p>As I took a moment to <em>touch the marks on my arms<\/em> left by my mother&#8217;s tattoo artist when I was just a boy, I hoped that neither she nor John would appear at this auction.<\/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>soiling his opponent\u2019s pants telling you she loves you none of the children believed their father and a haggis touch the marks on my arms Tune in next time part 477 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments The Himalayan Snowcock is not an especially terrifying bird. Due to traumatic events in his childhood, though, [&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":[335,91,525,403],"class_list":["post-7132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-animal","tag-bonus-points","tag-snowcock","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132","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=7132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7135,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132\/revisions\/7135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}