{"id":7237,"date":"2020-05-18T08:37:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T12:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=7237"},"modified":"2020-05-17T23:15:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T03:15:28","slug":"two-million-two-thousand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/two-million-two-thousand\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Two Million Two Thousand!&#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\" \/>flowed quickly from his nostrils<\/li>\n<li>many individuals still believe today<\/li>\n<li>should be home in bed<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI need the backstory.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>certainly not cinnamon-colored<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 493\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two million two thousand!&#8221; shouted Tatiana at the same second that John was swigging champagne, and he was so surprised by the thousand-dollar leap in the bidding that he nearly choked. Champagne <em>flowed quickly from his nostrils<\/em> as he looked around for a napkin.<\/p>\n<p>Turning back to me, Tatiana said. &#8220;I and <em>many individuals still believe today<\/em> in the ancient yeti maternity practices. I will give birth here in the cavern.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You <em>should be home in bed<\/em>,&#8221; I growled at her. &#8220;Or perhaps in that nice fortress down the mountain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No!&#8221; Tatiana grabbed my yeti-masked face in her hands and stared into my eyes. &#8220;I need the elderberries. I need the skin contact.&#8221; She enunciated every word.\u00a0<em>&#8220;I need the backstory.&#8221;<\/em> Her face crumpled under another contraction. &#8220;I need it all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I nodded.<\/p>\n<p>She called to her nearly nude companion. &#8220;Magnus, get one of the big serving trays from a waiter. It will stand in for the traditional sled. I will give birth upon it. And napkins! Bring many napkins! Whatever sort you can find, except <em>certainly not cinnamon-colored<\/em>. That would be ill-omened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was starting to feel quite superfluous, but decided to stick around and see my latest children be born.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two million two thousand thirty seven!&#8221; groaned Tatiana.<\/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>flowed quickly from his nostrils many individuals still believe today should be home in bed \u201cI need the backstory.\u201d certainly not cinnamon-colored Tune in next time part 493\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments &#8220;Two million two thousand!&#8221; shouted Tatiana at the same second that John was swigging champagne, and he was so surprised by [&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":[535,91,403,534],"class_list":["post-7237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-birth","tag-bonus-points","tag-tune-in-next-time","tag-yeti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237","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=7237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7241,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237\/revisions\/7241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}