{"id":9192,"date":"2023-02-22T08:36:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T13:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9192"},"modified":"2023-03-06T19:41:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T00:41:15","slug":"fleur-was-convinced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/fleur-was-convinced\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleur Was Convinced"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24\" src=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/k-avatar-e1443983846496.png\" alt=\"by Kent\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>\u201cdancing till all hours\u201d as my grandmother put it<\/li>\n<li>Is it me? My refrigerator?<\/li>\n<li>but it\u2019s kind of a secret<\/li>\n<li>as fast as my brain can tell my finger to<\/li>\n<li>bemused drawl and conman grin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 776 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fleur was convinced that this was a Tessabot, but I felt certain she was the real thing. But, had my sister let my wife in on some hidden info? Was I deluded? Did infatuation have my brain <em>&#8220;dancing till all hours&#8221; as my grandmother put it<\/em>? Why do such imponderables keep interfering with my life? <em>Is it me? My refrigerator?<\/em> Is it time to throw away that old pickle relish?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I asked you,&#8221; Tessa said, &#8220;which sister you talked to. It&#8217;s important!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is important, yes,&#8221; said Fleur, still hauling me down the corridor by my collar. &#8220;I get that, <em>but it&#8217;s kind of a secret<\/em>. And I wouldn&#8217;t tell a robot anyway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While she was distracted, I was undoing the buttons on my jacket as fast <em>as my brain can tell my finger to<\/em> poke them through their holes. That brain must not have done too much dancing, for in seconds, Fleur was holding the empty garment and I was dashing with Tessa down a side passageway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sure, run away,&#8221; Fleur said with a <em>bemused drawl and a conman grin<\/em>. &#8220;You gonna run right off the airship?&#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>\u201cdancing till all hours\u201d as my grandmother put it Is it me? My refrigerator? but it\u2019s kind of a secret as fast as my brain can tell my finger to bemused drawl and conman grin Tune in next time part 776 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments Fleur was convinced that this was 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-9192","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\/9192","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=9192"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9244,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192\/revisions\/9244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}