{"id":7509,"date":"2020-10-14T08:46:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T12:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=7509"},"modified":"2020-10-10T17:48:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T21:48:53","slug":"i-still-didnt-know-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-still-didnt-know-how\/","title":{"rendered":"I Still Didn&#8217;t Know How"},"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\" \/>obsessed with the idea that people or restaurants were going to \u201ctrick\u201d him<\/li>\n<li>the team is now missing<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIn other words, what you\u2019re telling me is<\/li>\n<li>I put a hand on his shoulder<\/li>\n<li>linking arms and striding triumphantly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 536 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I still didn&#8217;t know how we were going to get off the island, but the first order of business was to save Tessa &#8212; even if she was a bot &#8212; from a forced marriage to someone <em>obsessed with the idea that people or restaurants were going to &#8220;trick&#8221; him<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, I forgot you were there,&#8221; I said to Henry. &#8220;Thanks for the tacos, but shouldn&#8217;t you be getting back to the PSLM\u00b2? Without you, <em>the team is now missing<\/em> its cowboy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So eager to get rid of me?&#8221; Henry shot back. <em>&#8220;In other words, what you&#8217;re telling me is<\/em> that you don&#8217;t want competition for Tessa&#8217;s affections!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>I put a hand on his shoulder<\/em>. &#8220;First of all, fuck you. You were going to run away and let her self-destruct. And second, dude, there&#8217;s no contest. But if you want to stick around, maybe there are ways you could help. You don&#8217;t have a boat by any chance?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do not. But I know who does! Let&#8217;s go!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And we set out, the three of us <em>linking arms and striding triumphantly<\/em> out of the bugalow, although we had to pivot and do a sort of sideways kickline thing to make it through the doorway.<\/p>\n<p>Our celebratory mood didn&#8217;t even last across the front porch.<\/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>obsessed with the idea that people or restaurants were going to \u201ctrick\u201d him the team is now missing \u201cIn other words, what you\u2019re telling me is I put a hand on his shoulder linking arms and striding triumphantly Tune in next time part 536 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments I still didn&#8217;t know [&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-7509","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\/7509","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=7509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7513,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7509\/revisions\/7513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}