{"id":8024,"date":"2021-07-12T08:30:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T12:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=8024"},"modified":"2021-07-18T16:49:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T20:49:28","slug":"the-four-uncles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/the-four-uncles\/","title":{"rendered":"The Four Uncles"},"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\" \/>drive your dreams!<\/li>\n<li>huddling together for warmth<\/li>\n<li>enjoyed a few hours\u2019 sleep<\/li>\n<li>wipe it on the doorknob<\/li>\n<li>just like after a parade<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 613 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The four uncles gathered around me, purring and sweaty. It was a sight to <em>drive your dreams!<\/em> We did our cool-down exercises and ended up in a pile on the floor, <em>huddling together for warmth<\/em>. I dropped off and <em>enjoyed a few hours&#8217; sleep<\/em>, but was awakened abruptly by the robotic facsimile of my true love tugging insistently at my ankle. I wanted to rub my eyes, but my hand was quite a mess.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why don&#8217;t you <em>wipe it on the doorknob<\/em>?&#8221; the grumpy Tessabot hissed. &#8220;Isn&#8217;t that what they taught you at the Academy? Like after prom, or after health class, or <em>just like after a parade<\/em> of debauchery you called Homecoming?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I crawled gingerly out of the pile of uncles, doing my best not to disturb them. They must be at least as exhausted as I was.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why are you so mad?&#8221; I demanded. &#8220;You&#8217;re the one who used me as a diversionary tactic while you made your escape. And what doorknob are you talking about? There are no doorknobs in this tunnel.&#8221;<\/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>drive your dreams! huddling together for warmth enjoyed a few hours\u2019 sleep wipe it on the doorknob just like after a parade Tune in next time part 613 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments The four uncles gathered around me, purring and sweaty. It was a sight to drive your dreams! We did our [&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":[91,305,182,403],"class_list":["post-8024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-robot","tag-sex","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8024","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=8024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8038,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8024\/revisions\/8038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}