{"id":8220,"date":"2021-11-08T08:37:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T13:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=8220"},"modified":"2021-11-07T14:21:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T19:21:38","slug":"read-this-way-the-message-still-said-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/read-this-way-the-message-still-said-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Read This Way, the Message Still Said Nothing"},"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\" \/>shorts held up by suspenders<\/li>\n<li>while we limber up<\/li>\n<li>experimented with it at parties<\/li>\n<li>his revenge should be protracted and terrible<\/li>\n<li>the precision and cold-blooded nature<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 641 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read this way, the message still said nothing about the accompanying photo of my mother dressed only in <em>shorts held up by suspenders<\/em>. Perhaps I needed to rotate it 90 degrees and try it that way? I turned the page sideways, which made my brain cells scream, &#8220;Slow down <em>while we limber up<\/em>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aha! The limbo code! Of course!<\/p>\n<p>It had been outlawed at the Academy, but I and some of my fellow students learned about it and\u00a0<em>experimented with it at parties<\/em>. I was one of the two who mastered it. John was the other. I recognized his handwriting now, and knew that if he learned Hildegard and her father had showed this letter to me,\u00a0<em>his revenge should be protracted and terrible\u00a0<\/em>with <em>the precision and cold-blooded nature<\/em> of a shark.<\/p>\n<p>Was my new father-in-law trying to get me killed?<\/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>shorts held up by suspenders while we limber up experimented with it at parties his revenge should be protracted and terrible the precision and cold-blooded nature Tune in next time part 641 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments Read this way, the message still said nothing about the accompanying photo of my mother dressed [&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":[91,466,419,403],"class_list":["post-8220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-codebook","tag-mother","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8220","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=8220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8223,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8220\/revisions\/8223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}