{"id":8429,"date":"2022-02-23T08:45:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T13:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=8429"},"modified":"2022-02-21T21:51:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T02:51:49","slug":"i-have-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-have-to-say\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Have To Say&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/k-avatar-e1443983846496.png\" alt=\"by Kent\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>A lamp in the fashion of a silver dove<\/li>\n<li>grunty, sweaty practice sessions in front of the mirror<\/li>\n<li>gotten even bigger \u2014 bigger!<\/li>\n<li>the color of duck l\u2019orange<\/li>\n<li>\u201cZiz-zy, zuz-zy, zik!\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 672 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have to say,&#8221; said Fleur, &#8220;your antics of late have tried even my patience. Here, put this on.&#8221; She passed me a garment bag, inside which I found a Contrarian military uniform of some kind. It was much fancier than my previous one, though. It had spiked epaulets, and fringed boots. <em>A lamp in the fashion of a silver dove<\/em> dangled from a rod in the brim of the hat. As I found my way into it, Fleur explained that I had been nominated in absentia to lead the stand-up comedy branch of her country&#8217;s armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>Weapons-grade wisecracks called for extreme conditioning, and I groaned at the thought of endless <em>grunty, sweaty practice sessions in front of the mirror<\/em>. Soon darkness bathed the limo, and I thought we had entered a tunnel. But it was just the shadow of the royal zeppelin, which somehow had <em>gotten even bigger &#8212; bigger!<\/em> The tail section was painted <em>the color of duck l&#8217;orange<\/em>, with the Contrarian coat of arms plastered over it.<\/p>\n<p>Fleur spoke into a walkie talkie. <em>&#8220;Ziz-zy, zuz-zy, zik!&#8221;<\/em> At this code phrase, a platform was lowered from the belly of the zeppelin. The limo drove onto it, and it reeled us in.<\/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>A lamp in the fashion of a silver dove grunty, sweaty practice sessions in front of the mirror gotten even bigger \u2014 bigger! the color of duck l\u2019orange \u201cZiz-zy, zuz-zy, zik!\u201d Tune in next time part 672 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments &#8220;I have to say,&#8221; said Fleur, &#8220;your antics of late have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318,4],"tags":[91,403],"class_list":["post-8429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-four-elements-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8432,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429\/revisions\/8432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}