{"id":8615,"date":"2022-06-08T08:24:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T12:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=8615"},"modified":"2022-06-07T22:05:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T02:05:24","slug":"you-stay-away-from-my-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/you-stay-away-from-my-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You Stay Away From My Mother&#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\" \/>equally frustrated wife<\/li>\n<li>snake-based consequences<\/li>\n<li>multicolored donkey wallpaper<\/li>\n<li>by an unidentified hand with red ink<\/li>\n<li>exchanged snuff-boxes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 702 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You stay away from my mother,&#8221; I said to John.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t listen to him,&#8221; Mother said, &#8220;or I&#8217;ll have a frustrated husband who&#8217;ll have an <em>equally frustrated wife<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fleur hauled on my arm, spinning me to face her yet again. &#8220;You need to change into your ceremonial pajamas,&#8221; she scolded, thrusting a cloth bundle into my hands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Didn&#8217;t we already miss the reception?&#8221; I complained.<\/p>\n<p>Nodding impatiently she said, &#8220;Showing up improperly dressed at the reception would have consequences, and since this is the second reception they&#8217;d be<em> snake-based consequences<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I sulked off to the nearest lavatory to change. It had <em>multicolored donkey wallpaper<\/em>, which was how I knew this wedding chapel was aboard a Contrarian zeppelin. A message had been smeared on the mirror <em>by an unidentified hand with red ink<\/em> on the fingertips. It said, &#8220;The wedding doesn&#8217;t count if they haven&#8217;t <em>exchanged snuff-boxes<\/em>.&#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>equally frustrated wife snake-based consequences multicolored donkey wallpaper by an unidentified hand with red ink exchanged snuff-boxes Tune in next time part 702 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments &#8220;You stay away from my mother,&#8221; I said to John. &#8220;Don&#8217;t listen to him,&#8221; Mother said, &#8220;or I&#8217;ll have a frustrated husband who&#8217;ll have an [&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-8615","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\/8615","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=8615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8631,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615\/revisions\/8631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}