{"id":7846,"date":"2021-04-05T08:35:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T12:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=7846"},"modified":"2021-04-06T14:47:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T18:47:39","slug":"i-had-been-on-the-academys-beatnik-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-had-been-on-the-academys-beatnik-team\/","title":{"rendered":"I Had Been on the Academy&#8217;s Beatnik Team"},"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\" \/>please sing that<\/li>\n<li>signal when you want me to stop<\/li>\n<li>I just don\u2019t feel like giving hugs<\/li>\n<li>lasted for two weeks<\/li>\n<li>a snow-covered archipelago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 585\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>I had been on the Academy&#8217;s Beatnik Team, but it had been years since I&#8217;d tapped the skins. To stall I said, &#8220;<em>Please sing that<\/em> request, Captain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He slid his sunglasses down his nose and glared at me until I got myself seated comfortably crosslegged with the bongos nestled between my knees. My fingertips tingled in anticipation. &#8220;Wave to <em>signal when you want me to stop<\/em>,&#8221; I said, and began. The rhythms came back to me immediately. It was way-out, Daddy-O. You dig?<\/p>\n<p>The captain waved his hand in my face and I finished with a flourish. &#8220;You can ride with me,&#8221; the captain said, standing. &#8220;<em>I just don&#8217;t feel like giving hugs<\/em> or kisses or anything like that.&#8221; He went to the railing and untied the boat from the pier.<\/p>\n<p>We left the harbor of the piratical island with no difficulties at all, which was a welcome surprise. Our journey <em>lasted for two weeks<\/em>, and I never learned the name of either the yacht or her captain. But I did play a lot of bongos.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of our two-week sail we spotted <em>a snow-covered archipelago<\/em>, unfamiliar to me and to Tessa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is where you get off,&#8221; the anonymous captain 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>please sing that signal when you want me to stop I just don\u2019t feel like giving hugs lasted for two weeks a snow-covered archipelago Tune in next time part 585\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments I had been on the Academy&#8217;s Beatnik Team, but it had been years since I&#8217;d tapped the skins. To stall [&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":[357,91,221,403],"class_list":["post-7846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-boat","tag-bonus-points","tag-music","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846","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=7846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7849,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846\/revisions\/7849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}