{"id":9000,"date":"2022-12-05T08:24:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T13:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9000"},"modified":"2022-12-04T20:54:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T01:54:21","slug":"if-i-had-a-nickel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/if-i-had-a-nickel\/","title":{"rendered":"If I had a Nickel"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13\" src=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/j-avatar-e1443983489508.png\" alt=\"by jen\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>highly flammable-looking outfits<\/li>\n<li>had a cousin reach out to me with a similar offer about some family secrets<\/li>\n<li>Do you deny this?<\/li>\n<li>honors bestowed upon me by three republics<\/li>\n<li>jelly-like substance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 753 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If I had a nickel for every time my happiness was derailed by villains in <em>highly flammable-looking outfits<\/em>, I would be a rich man. Zeus Pamplemousse thought he was so special in his cape of moon-velvet. He thought he could kidnap Tessa and blackmail her by threatening the life of her therapist? Not on my watch! I <em>had a cousin reach out to me with a similar &#8220;offer&#8221; about some family secrets<\/em> once upon a time, emphasis on &#8220;had.&#8221; I know how to deal with blackmailers. That particular cousin won&#8217;t be spilling any family secrets after all, if you catch my meaning. I leapt across the bed to fetch my uniform trousers. Nudists streaking through the corridors were not unheard of on Contrarian airships, but I am a general and have to project an aura of authority. It&#8217;s possible to do that naked, but it takes an awful lot of glaring and I was exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>Fleur waddled out of the bathroom, a soggy infant on each hip. &#8220;Who am I braver than?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What?&#8221; I struggled with my zipper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I heard you tell someone quite emphatically that I am braver than they are. <em>Do you deny this?<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course not. I have had <em>honors bestowed upon me by three republics<\/em>, and I have the medals to prove it. I deny nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So who am I braver than?&#8221; She was much more coherent than she&#8217;d been in the tub.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Zeus Pamplemousse,&#8221; I muttered and headed for the door, shirt in hand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Zeus Pamplemousse is here?&#8221; Fleur&#8217;s face drained of color and her complexion resembled a\u00a0<em>jelly-like substance<\/em>. Before she could faint, I snatched the babies from her arms. &#8220;I was so sure I&#8217;d never see him again after what happened last time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>bonus points for using them in order<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stichomancy Writing Prompts\" href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompts\/\">about stichomancy writing prompts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompt-generator\/\">try our stichomancy writing prompt generator!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>highly flammable-looking outfits had a cousin reach out to me with a similar offer about some family secrets Do you deny this? honors bestowed upon me by three republics jelly-like substance Tune in next time part 753 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments If I had a nickel for every time my happiness was [&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-9000","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\/9000","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=9000"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9055,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions\/9055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}