{"id":7251,"date":"2020-05-27T08:48:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T12:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=7251"},"modified":"2020-05-25T12:03:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T16:03:59","slug":"why-spend-a-dime-on-jim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/why-spend-a-dime-on-jim\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why Spend a Dime on Jim&#8221;"},"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\" \/>rearranged her hair<\/li>\n<li>green plastic frog goggles<\/li>\n<li>Thirteen people have been arrested<\/li>\n<li>$1,100 snakeskin jacket that you never wear but like to tell other people you have<\/li>\n<li>secret society of possibly murderous, mega-wealthy hedonists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 496\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;Why spend a dime on Jim,&#8221; I asked, maintaining my yeti voice in case John didn&#8217;t already know my identity, &#8220;if it&#8217;s the clarinet we care about? We just need to find it first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John shook his head violently. &#8220;We discussed this!&#8221; So, he thought I was someone else. &#8220;The map to its location was the wig on the mannequin at Blinkie&#8217;s Overalls, but someone <em>rearranged her hair<\/em> to obscure the coordinates. The only clue about who did it was the <em>green plastic frog goggles<\/em> found at the scene. We bribed the local constabulary to do our dirty work. <em>Thirteen people have been arrested<\/em>, including the guy who stole that <em>$1,100 snakeskin jacket that you never wear but like to tell other people you have<\/em>, but we&#8217;re no closer to our real goal. And for that reason, we are trying to infiltrate this <em>secret society of possibly murderous, mega-wealthy hedonists<\/em>.&#8221; He squinted at me. &#8220;I&#8217;m continually surprised by how poor your memory is.&#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>rearranged her hair green plastic frog goggles Thirteen people have been arrested $1,100 snakeskin jacket that you never wear but like to tell other people you have secret society of possibly murderous, mega-wealthy hedonists Tune in next time part 496\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments &#8220;Why spend a dime on Jim,&#8221; I asked, maintaining [&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":[91,403],"class_list":["post-7251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251","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=7251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7254,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251\/revisions\/7254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}