{"id":7402,"date":"2020-08-17T14:02:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T18:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=7402"},"modified":"2020-08-17T14:02:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T18:02:45","slug":"in-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/in-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Past"},"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\" \/>with glitter and colored glass<\/li>\n<li>even on a dare<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s another ritual.<\/li>\n<li>The internet\u2019s first conspiracy theory<\/li>\n<li>He probably thought you were trying to trap him<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 519 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the past when I received a letter like Marnie&#8217;s, it came in a box filled <em>with glitter and colored glass<\/em> slippers I would never wear, not <em>even on a dare<\/em>. Some people might think the whole thing is a test or a joke, but it&#8217;s not.\u00a0<em>It&#8217;s another ritual.<\/em> Contrarian, of course.<\/p>\n<p><em>The internet&#8217;s first conspiracy theory<\/em> was about Contrarian rituals, and most of the conspiracies since have been, too, even if inadvertently. Contrarian rituals are complex and ubiquitous. How could I extract poor Marnie Glockenspiel from this ritual she didn&#8217;t even know she was participating in?<\/p>\n<p>I heard Svetlana say, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think your husband was kidnapped at all. <em>He probably thought you were trying to trap him<\/em>, and fled. Men do that, you know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, but I was trying to trap him!&#8221; Marnie declared.<\/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>with glitter and colored glass even on a dare It\u2019s another ritual. The internet\u2019s first conspiracy theory He probably thought you were trying to trap him Tune in next time part 519 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments In the past when I received a letter like Marnie&#8217;s, it came in a box filled [&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":[91,403,536],"class_list":["post-7402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-tune-in-next-time","tag-twist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402","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=7402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7405,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions\/7405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}