{"id":9135,"date":"2023-01-23T08:41:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T13:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9135"},"modified":"2023-01-22T16:14:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T21:14:45","slug":"were-not-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/were-not-on-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We&#8217;re Not on the Moon&#8221;"},"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\" \/>on the etiquette scale<\/li>\n<li>old pal from his carny days<\/li>\n<li>, think again.<\/li>\n<li>write it in the sky<\/li>\n<li>deep and abiding love<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 767 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not on the moon,&#8221; I said. &#8220;So all this talk of Lunar Law and Lunar customs is irrelevant.&#8221; I took Tessa&#8217;s hand. &#8220;Come on. We don&#8217;t have to play along with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pamplemousse spluttered about how rude I was. According to him I ranked even lower <em>on the etiquette scale<\/em> than Greasepaint Gus, <em>an old pal from his carny days<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I replied, &#8220;If you think I care at all about the Annual Lunar Etiquette Olympics<em>, think again.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tessa wiped the frosting off her face with Pamplemousse&#8217;s velvet cape and added, &#8220;And if you don&#8217;t leave me alone, I&#8217;ll have the General here order this zeppelin to do some fancy maneuvers and <em>write it in the sky<\/em> for all to see that the Moon King used to be a carny.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I beamed at her. Is it any wonder why I have a <em>deep and abiding love<\/em> for this woman?<\/p>\n<p>Zeus Pamplemousse chuckled darkly. &#8220;Under Lunar Law, skywriting gossip is considered an act of war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t just declare something against Lunar Law whenever you&#8217;re feeling shirty,&#8221; I complained. &#8220;The same way you can&#8217;t just declare someone your wife.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, actually,&#8221; Tessa said. &#8220;He <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">can<\/span> do that second thing.&#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>on the etiquette scale old pal from his carny days , think again. write it in the sky deep and abiding love Tune in next time part 767 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments &#8220;We&#8217;re not on the moon,&#8221; I said. &#8220;So all this talk of Lunar Law and Lunar customs is irrelevant.&#8221; I [&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":[91,403,441,486],"class_list":["post-9135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-tune-in-next-time","tag-wedding","tag-zeppelin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135","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=9135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9138,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135\/revisions\/9138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}