{"id":8883,"date":"2022-10-26T08:36:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T12:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=8883"},"modified":"2022-10-15T23:30:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T03:30:48","slug":"why-would-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/why-would-anyone\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why Would Anyone&#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\" \/>fled Australia in a fake beard<\/li>\n<li>you\u2019re boring, baby<\/li>\n<li>left behind four fully grown hippopotamuses<\/li>\n<li>My fingers are too stubby for such delicate work<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPrague is a city,\u201d she said firmly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 742 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why would anyone leave a cheese hamper &#8212; especially such a heavy one &#8212; in the billiard room?&#8221; Isolde asked. Oddly enough, I was ready with an answer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They must have stolen it, and the fuzz was closing in.&#8221; I elaborated by relating the tale of when my cousin <em>fled Australia in a fake beard<\/em> being worn by my much larger cousin, but I didn&#8217;t get far before I caught that look on Isolde&#8217;s face. The look says &#8220;<em>you&#8217;re boring, baby<\/em>&#8221; and it didn&#8217;t waver even when I mentioned that my cousins <em>left behind four fully grown hippopotamuses<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Fleur pinched her nose. She said, &#8220;I think one of those diapers needs changing. You do it. <em>My fingers are too stubby for such delicate work<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, in that case,&#8221; I ventured hopefully, &#8220;perhaps you&#8217;d like to get out of the tub now that it&#8217;s been contaminated. That diaper looks pretty waterlogged.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fleur was still holding her nose. <em>&#8220;Prague is a city,&#8221; she said firmly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, I said waterlogged.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She ignored me. &#8220;And I want to go there right now. Isolde, go to the bridge and tell them I want a Bohemian spa day.&#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>fled Australia in a fake beard you\u2019re boring, baby left behind four fully grown hippopotamuses My fingers are too stubby for such delicate work \u201cPrague is a city,\u201d she said firmly. Tune in next time part 742 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments &#8220;Why would anyone leave a cheese hamper &#8212; especially such a [&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-8883","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\/8883","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=8883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8911,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions\/8911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}