{"id":7669,"date":"2021-01-04T17:42:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T22:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=7669"},"modified":"2021-06-08T22:04:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T02:04:44","slug":"all-this-talk-of-limericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/all-this-talk-of-limericks\/","title":{"rendered":"All This Talk of Limericks"},"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\" \/>tantamount to intellectual masturbation<\/li>\n<li>big buttery buns<\/li>\n<li>it would be embarrassing<\/li>\n<li>you experience rapid hair growth<\/li>\n<li>in a tartan frock<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 559<\/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>All this talk of limericks reminded me that the woman beside me was not the real Tessa, but merely a robot duplicate. The real Tessa hates limericks. She considers reciting them <em>tantamount to intellectual masturbation<\/em>. No matter how much the Tessabot looked like the woman I loved, I couldn&#8217;t forget the truth. The <em>big buttery buns<\/em> beneath this wedding costume were not the big buttery buns I pined for, and <em>it would be embarrassing<\/em> to be so caught up in surface appearances that I forgot that.<\/p>\n<p>I squared my shoulders and cut the &#8220;cake.&#8221; I closed my eyes and opened my mouth so the Tessabot could feed me a bite. I shuddered. The cake tasted like some foul concoction that would make <em>you experience rapid hair growth<\/em> in places where you don&#8217;t want hair. I was able to spit it into a napkin unchewed, but my tongue was now numb. The Tessabot happily chewed and swallowed her mouthful, more evidence that she was not the woman I loved.<\/p>\n<p>At that moment Jason arrived <em>in a tartan frock<\/em>, carrying a platter upon which rested a goose, also in a tartan frock.<\/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>tantamount to intellectual masturbation big buttery buns it would be embarrassing you experience rapid hair growth in a tartan frock Tune in next time part 559\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments All this talk of limericks reminded me that the woman beside me was not the real Tessa, but merely a robot duplicate. The [&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":[91,24,341,403,441],"class_list":["post-7669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-brother","tag-clothes","tag-tune-in-next-time","tag-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7669","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=7669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7967,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7669\/revisions\/7967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}