{"id":816,"date":"2012-12-24T08:27:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T13:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=816"},"modified":"2014-01-04T20:52:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T01:52:20","slug":"does-he-expect-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/does-he-expect-us\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Does He Expect Us&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-13\" title=\"j-avatar\" alt=\"by jen\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/j-avatar.png\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>In this special holiday edition, the stichomancy prompt phrases were all taken from Christmas carols. Jen went in a different direction with it, though. Happy holidays!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>you can do the job when you&#8217;re in town<\/li>\n<li>me, I want a hula hoop<\/li>\n<li>with a broomstick in his hand<\/li>\n<li>dressed up like Eskimos<\/li>\n<li>later on we&#8217;ll conspire<\/li>\n<li>down through the chimney<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Does he expect us to go <em>down through the chimney<\/em>?&#8221; I asked, incredulous. &#8220;That place is impregnable. There&#8217;s a guard at every door, and I don&#8217;t mean the kind <em>with a broomstick in his hand<\/em>. I mean the kind with guns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Boss says &#8216;<em>you can do the job when you&#8217;re in town<\/em>,'&#8221; replied my partner in crime. &#8220;Like it&#8217;s easy to assassinate traitors in broad daylight. The man hasn&#8217;t been out in the field in at least a decade. His expectations are unreasonable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I downed another shot before replying. &#8220;When he was on active duty, the Russians all <em>dressed up like Eskimos<\/em>. Made &#8217;em easy to spot. Let&#8217;s just do this damn job. <em>Later on we&#8217;ll conspire<\/em> about a coup.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bartender approached. &#8220;Another round?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My partner perused the drinks menu, then said, &#8220;<em>Me, I want a hula hoop<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Make it two.&#8221;<\/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>In this special holiday edition, the stichomancy prompt phrases were all taken from Christmas carols. Jen went in a different direction with it, though. Happy holidays! you can do the job when you&#8217;re in town me, I want a hula hoop with a broomstick in his hand dressed up like Eskimos later on we&#8217;ll conspire [&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":[330,332,130,172],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-alcohol","tag-crime","tag-holiday","tag-spy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","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=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2055,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/2055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}