{"id":8694,"date":"2022-07-20T08:59:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T12:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=8694"},"modified":"2022-07-17T22:40:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T02:40:53","slug":"if-i-didnt-stop-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/if-i-didnt-stop-john\/","title":{"rendered":"If I Didn&#8217;t Stop John"},"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\" \/>could not have depicted yon mountains<\/li>\n<li>How far up does that thing go?<\/li>\n<li>blowing smoke rings<\/li>\n<li>this is not a wine for drinking<\/li>\n<li>lumpy inside the pants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 714 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If I didn&#8217;t stop John from using an escape pod, there would be no way to make him restore control of the vessel. We would cross into Harmonian airspace and start a war. My best hope was that Mother was with him, slowing him down.<\/p>\n<p>None of the escape pods had jettisoned by the time I reached them. That was the good news. The bad news was that I had no idea where John was, if not in an escape pod. I was about to turn back when I heard bickering from one of the pods. I peered in through the viewport and saw John and Mother facing each other, framing a jagged, snowy mountain range through their pod&#8217;s windshield. Had I been the most talented painter in the world, I <em>could not have depicted yon mountains<\/em> more aptly as a metaphor for the conversation I was overhearing.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed that John&#8217;s sabotage panel on the dance floor had disabled the escape pods along with the airship&#8217;s main controls. Mother&#8217;s temper was sorely elevated. One might ask, about her temper, &#8220;<em>How far up does that thing go?<\/em>&#8221; and I could tell you truthfully, &#8220;All the way.&#8221; I remember more than one occasion when she was <em>blowing smoke rings<\/em> out of her nostrils, and once, from her ears.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t want to, but I rapped on the glass. If the look on Mother&#8217;s face had been wine, the label would have carried a warning label like &#8220;<em>this is not a wine for drinking<\/em>, it is a wine for cleaning battery terminals.&#8221; For the first time I noticed that John was not angry. His face bore the look of someone who was feeling <em>lumpy inside the pants<\/em>, and probably smelling up that escape pod.<\/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>could not have depicted yon mountains How far up does that thing go? blowing smoke rings this is not a wine for drinking lumpy inside the pants Tune in next time part 714 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments If I didn&#8217;t stop John from using an escape pod, there would be no way [&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-8694","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\/8694","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=8694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8699,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions\/8699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}