{"id":7452,"date":"2020-09-14T08:44:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T12:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=7452"},"modified":"2020-09-13T20:38:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T00:38:36","slug":"it-had-been-so-very-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/it-had-been-so-very-long\/","title":{"rendered":"It Had Been So Very Long"},"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\" \/>magic in the mouth<\/li>\n<li>uttering an exclamation of surprise<\/li>\n<li>sing like an alien<\/li>\n<li>used to be a rodeo champ<\/li>\n<li>say 53 more hilarious things<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 527 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It had been so very long since I saw her. I was awestruck anew by her beauty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tessa,&#8221; I breathed, and her name was like <em>magic in the mouth<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>She said my name like she was <em>uttering an exclamation of surprise<\/em>, and yanked me into the bungalow by my lapels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I should have known you&#8217;d show up,&#8221; she said, cupping my face in her hands and staring into my eyes. &#8220;Wherever there is karaoke, there you are, ready to <em>sing like an alien<\/em> who <em>used to be a rodeo champ<\/em>ion on his home planet.&#8221; She went on to <em>say 53 more hilarious things<\/em> about my passion for the art of the empty orchestra, but I was too stunned to make note of them all. Tessa &#8212; my darling Tessa, love of my life &#8212; was wearing a wedding dress. It was for her reception that the PSLM\u00b2 were rehearsing, her reception at which Jason was going to rap. Henry the faux-cowboy was here to win her back. But who was she marrying on this fateful day?<\/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>magic in the mouth uttering an exclamation of surprise sing like an alien used to be a rodeo champ say 53 more hilarious things Tune in next time part 527 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments It had been so very long since I saw her. I was awestruck anew by her beauty. &#8220;Tessa,&#8221; [&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":[42,91,24,244,403],"class_list":["post-7452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-alien","tag-bonus-points","tag-brother","tag-celebration","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452","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=7452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7456,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452\/revisions\/7456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}