{"id":7811,"date":"2021-03-22T08:29:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T12:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=7811"},"modified":"2021-03-19T14:57:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T18:57:37","slug":"tessa-knew-how-to-operate-a-motorcycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tessa-knew-how-to-operate-a-motorcycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Tessa Knew How to Operate a Motorcycle"},"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\" \/>&#8212; mind the lobsters &#8212;<\/li>\n<li>socks that my dad fixed<\/li>\n<li>look into your eyes again<\/li>\n<li>evidence-schmevidence<\/li>\n<li>psychedelic detective story<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 581\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tessa knew how to operate a motorcycle. It was everything else about driving that she seemed ignorant of. I found myself shouting directions from the sidecar like some kind of terrible backseat driver. &#8220;Yield to pedestrians &#8212; stay in your lane <em>&#8212; mind the lobsters &#8212;<\/em> use your turn signal!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly the Viscount shimmered into view in the deep end of the tub. &#8220;Ah, good, you&#8217;re back,&#8221; he said. He raised his feet and held them in front of my face. &#8220;Do you like these <em>socks that my dad fixed<\/em> to the end of my pant legs? It&#8217;s to stop me from losing them. I&#8217;m afraid they might look silly. What do you think? Tell me the truth. I&#8217;ll know if you&#8217;re lying when I <em>look into your eyes again<\/em> and see the evidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Evidence-schmevidence<\/em>,&#8221; I said. &#8220;This isn&#8217;t some kind of <em>psychedelic detective story<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tessa looked at me quizzically.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eyes on the road!&#8221; I yelled.<\/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>&#8212; mind the lobsters &#8212; socks that my dad fixed look into your eyes again evidence-schmevidence psychedelic detective story Tune in next time part 581\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments Tessa knew how to operate a motorcycle. It was everything else about driving that she seemed ignorant of. I found myself shouting directions from 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":[91,163,305,403],"class_list":["post-7811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-ghost","tag-robot","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811","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=7811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7815,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811\/revisions\/7815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}