{"id":8584,"date":"2022-05-09T09:09:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T13:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=8584"},"modified":"2022-05-08T21:28:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T01:28:20","slug":"dont-listen-to-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/dont-listen-to-him\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Don&#8217;t Listen to Him&#8221;"},"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\" \/>very, very politically embarrassing<\/li>\n<li>certainly a bold claim<\/li>\n<li>now is not the fucking time<\/li>\n<li>doled out like gold nuggets<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMonkeys?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 693 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t listen to him,&#8221; Esmerelda said. &#8220;He&#8217;s jealous of Jim, and is trying to arrange a <em>very, very politically embarrassing<\/em> photo op.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s <em>certainly a bold claim<\/em>,&#8221; I said, &#8220;but since when does Jim care about what&#8217;s politically embarrassing?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I may interrupt,&#8221; interrupted Mr Carousel.<\/p>\n<p>I glared at him. &#8220;<em>Now is not the fucking time<\/em>, dude.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was just going to say that in the Royal Contrarian Icecapades, monkeys are <em>doled out like gold nuggets<\/em> at the Fort Knox gift shop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Monkeys?&#8221;<\/em> Jim asked from inside his panda head. &#8220;Tell me more.&#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>very, very politically embarrassing certainly a bold claim now is not the fucking time doled out like gold nuggets \u201cMonkeys?\u201d Tune in next time part 693 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments &#8220;Don&#8217;t listen to him,&#8221; Esmerelda said. &#8220;He&#8217;s jealous of Jim, and is trying to arrange a very, very politically embarrassing photo op.&#8221; [&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":[91,122,546,403],"class_list":["post-8584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-monkey","tag-scientists","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8584","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=8584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8587,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8584\/revisions\/8587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}