{"id":8659,"date":"2022-06-27T22:19:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T02:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=8659"},"modified":"2022-06-27T22:19:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T02:19:12","slug":"to-my-dismay-the-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/to-my-dismay-the-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"To My Dismay, the Lyrics"},"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\" \/>leaping for this dazzling incomparable adventure<\/li>\n<li>bright green carbonated beverage<\/li>\n<li>If I could promise you just one thing<\/li>\n<li>spearheaded by a magician<\/li>\n<li>only I can see her<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 707 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To my dismay, the lyrics taped to the stage were those of the &#8220;Major-General&#8217;s Song&#8221; from the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pirates of Penzance<\/span>. A younger version of me, the me from drama club, would be <em>leaping for this dazzling incomparable adventure<\/em>, the singing of such a challenging tune in front of a rapt audience. That starry-eyed thespian was long gone, though, and the only way for me to tap into his enthusiasm, and power through this ordeal was to drink a large quantity of every teen&#8217;s favorite <em>bright green carbonated beverage<\/em>. A pianist ran through the intro several times while I flagged down a passing cater-waiter and ordered him to bring me a 2 liter bottle of Mountain Dew. I may not actually be a Major-General, but I am a general General. He took one look at the medals on my sash and darted off to the kitchen. The pianist was quite irked by the delay. Her playing became brisker and pointier and she threw me looks that said, &#8220;<em>If I could promise you just one thing<\/em>, it&#8217;s that if you don&#8217;t start singing soon I will murder you in your sleep with a stick <em>spearheaded by a magician<\/em>&#8216;s magic dagger.&#8221; Such an outlandish threat! And yet, I thought, underneath the hostility she behaves so want<em>only I can see her<\/em> complete lack of undergarments, even when she&#8217;s seated behind the piano.<\/p>\n<p>bonus points for using them in order<\/p>\n<div class=\"content\">\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<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>leaping for this dazzling incomparable adventure bright green carbonated beverage If I could promise you just one thing spearheaded by a magician only I can see her Tune in next time part 707 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments To my dismay, the lyrics taped to the stage were those of the &#8220;Major-General&#8217;s Song&#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":[91,16,267,221,403],"class_list":["post-8659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-effervescent-concoction","tag-mountain-dew","tag-music","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659","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=8659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8662,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659\/revisions\/8662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}