{"id":8521,"date":"2022-04-13T08:39:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T12:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=8521"},"modified":"2022-04-12T19:15:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T23:15:52","slug":"the-plastic-spoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/the-plastic-spoon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Plastic Spoon"},"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\" \/>I\u2019d suggest finding a different doctor<\/li>\n<li>co-stars a chimp<\/li>\n<li>a creature of infinite melancholy<\/li>\n<li>suggested that we wear each other\u2019s shirts<\/li>\n<li>new moccasins and snow-shoes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 686 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The plastic spoon wasn&#8217;t having much effect on the ice entombing the only fork available to me on this airship. I needed to get back to the petting zoo quickly! So, I pried the whole frost-caked shelf out of the dessert case and dumped the pies onto the counter. The circus people&#8217;s eyes lit up when so many pastries landed before them, so I left them the spoon as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just what the doctor ordered,&#8221; I heard one of them say.<\/p>\n<p>I ran out of the bistro, muttering, &#8220;<em>I&#8217;d suggest finding a different doctor<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Contrarian airships do not all have petting zoos. That&#8217;s a myth perpetuated by a classic TV series that <em>co-stars a chimp<\/em> astrologer and <em>a creature of infinite melancholy<\/em>\u00a0resembling a flightless parrot. They solve mysteries together, visiting a different airship&#8217;s petting zoo in each episode.<\/p>\n<p>Of course Fleur&#8217;s vessel had everything. Racing back with the chilled fork to help Jim, I took a shortcut across the ice rink. The referee of the in-progress hockey game tried to delay me and <em>suggested that we wear each other&#8217;s shirts<\/em>, a blatant ploy by the sports officials&#8217; union to insinuate itself into military affairs. I laughed and kept moving. Because ice skates are the one sharp object that ever accidentally downed a Contrarian blimp, the hockey players weren&#8217;t allowed to wear them. At least they all had <em>new moccasins and snow-shoes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>My shortcut proved to be a miscalculation, though.<\/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>I\u2019d suggest finding a different doctor co-stars a chimp a creature of infinite melancholy suggested that we wear each other\u2019s shirts new moccasins and snow-shoes Tune in next time part 686 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments The plastic spoon wasn&#8217;t having much effect on the ice entombing the only fork available to me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,4],"tags":[91,403],"class_list":["post-8521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521","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=8521"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8531,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521\/revisions\/8531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}