{"id":8741,"date":"2022-08-22T08:19:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T12:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=8741"},"modified":"2022-08-13T19:03:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T23:03:06","slug":"john-closed-his-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/john-closed-his-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"John Closed His Eyes"},"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\" \/>Who\u2019s jealous?<\/li>\n<li>in the dental infirmary<\/li>\n<li>you do have a baffling language<\/li>\n<li>introduces me to all her friends as \u2018no fun.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>thinking about that taste right now triggers my gag reflex<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 723 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John closed his eyes and went completely still. He looked like he&#8217;d fallen asleep, a state I hadn&#8217;t enjoyed in ages. <em>Who&#8217;s jealous?<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">You&#8217;re<\/span> jealous! I was just relieved that Mother&#8217;s trigger phrase merely took John out of commission instead of initiating some sort of berserker rage that would end with all of us<em> in the dental infirmary<\/em>. The dental infirmaries on Contrarian airships are rudimentary at best, and they use an off-brand novocaine that numbs your tongue and lips so thoroughly that<em>\u00a0you do have a baffling language<\/em> all your own for hours and hours. It&#8217;s because I refused to indulge Fleur and sing karaoke in that state that she now <em>introduces me to all her friends as &#8216;no fun.&#8217;<\/em>\u00a0It&#8217;s so bad that <em>thinking about that taste right now triggers my gag reflex<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily I remembered another trigger phrase that might get John back in motion.<\/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>Who\u2019s jealous? in the dental infirmary you do have a baffling language introduces me to all her friends as \u2018no fun.\u2019 thinking about that taste right now triggers my gag reflex Tune in next time part 723 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments John closed his eyes and went completely still. He looked like [&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":[91,403,486],"class_list":["post-8741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-tune-in-next-time","tag-zeppelin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741","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=8741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8755,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741\/revisions\/8755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}