{"id":9147,"date":"2023-01-30T08:45:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T13:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9147"},"modified":"2023-01-28T19:04:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T00:04:23","slug":"speaking-of-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/speaking-of-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Speaking of Birds&#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\" \/>land one on his chin<\/li>\n<li>used only body glitter for makeup<\/li>\n<li>\u201cYou don\u2019t have to worry about me.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>backstory about my socks<\/li>\n<li>what will happen if I let myself fall asleep<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 769 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Speaking of birds,&#8221; said Zeus Pamplemousse. &#8220;Before I can allow any wife of mine to spend time with her manstress, she must train a flock of Moon Owls and <em>land one on his chin<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s not going to happen,&#8221; Tessa and I said in unison. The Moon King&#8217;s lunacy was quite remarkable. It reminded me of a teacher at the Academy who <em>used only body glitter for makeup<\/em>, and used quite a lot of it. He was quite sparkly. Problem being the glitter had a high mercury content, and the teacher went quite mad.<\/p>\n<p>I scoped out the zeppelin&#8217;s wedding chapel for escape routes, and found them all blocked by candles. Many, many candles. If we made a break for it, it would be quite dangerous. Tessa saw what I was up to, and the look on her face said, <em>&#8220;You don&#8217;t have to worry about me.&#8221;<\/em> I squeezed her hand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And while she is training the Moon Owls,&#8221; Pamplemousse continued, as if we hadn&#8217;t interrupted him, &#8220;she will have to memorize the entire <em>backstory about my socks <\/em>&#8212; my Moon Socks! &#8212; and what makes them so special, and why I can never wash them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>What will happen if I let myself fall asleep<\/em> right now?<\/span> I wondered. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Will my dreams be any more bizarre than my reality?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I was ready to run for the exit, but Tessa was distracted, mesmerized by Zeus Pamplemousse&#8217;s astonishing Moon Socks.<\/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>land one on his chin used only body glitter for makeup \u201cYou don\u2019t have to worry about me.\u201d backstory about my socks what will happen if I let myself fall asleep Tune in next time part 769 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments &#8220;Speaking of birds,&#8221; said Zeus Pamplemousse. &#8220;Before I can allow any [&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":[91,341,403,486],"class_list":["post-9147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-clothes","tag-tune-in-next-time","tag-zeppelin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147","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=9147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9151,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147\/revisions\/9151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}