{"id":7869,"date":"2021-04-19T08:38:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T12:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=7869"},"modified":"2021-04-18T14:35:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T18:35:53","slug":"dashing-through-the-snow-with-a-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/dashing-through-the-snow-with-a-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"Dashing Through the Snow With a Robot"},"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\" \/>left to the mercies of savage beasts<\/li>\n<li>stand on the equatorial line<\/li>\n<li>all of them ablaze<\/li>\n<li>midnight gardeners<\/li>\n<li>how many woodchucks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 589\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>Dashing through the snow with a robot simulacrum of my true love by my side reminded me strongly of senior prom at the Academy. As per tradition, everyone in the running for Prom King and Queen were taken by helicopter to a remote wintry location and <em>left to the mercies of savage beasts<\/em>. The first male and female students to make it back to the Academy and <em>stand on the equatorial line<\/em> in the courtyard would be crowned prom royalty.<\/p>\n<p>That year, Tessa (the true, human Tessa) and I were the winners. I remembered with pride the two of us ascending to our thrones, surrounded by great bonfires, <em>all of them ablaze<\/em> with leaping blue flames. I could still hear the Academy&#8217;s <em>midnight gardeners<\/em> debating <em>how many woodchucks<\/em> it took to chuck wood for so many fires.<\/p>\n<p>I knew the answer, of course. I was the Prom King.<\/p>\n<p>I still remembered the answer to that riddle, but I doubted it would do me much good in my current circumstances.<\/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>left to the mercies of savage beasts stand on the equatorial line all of them ablaze midnight gardeners how many woodchucks Tune in next time part 589\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments Dashing through the snow with a robot simulacrum of my true love by my side reminded me strongly of senior prom at 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":[91,279,305,403],"class_list":["post-7869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-dance","tag-robot","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869","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=7869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7873,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869\/revisions\/7873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}