{"id":9223,"date":"2023-03-06T11:28:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T16:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9223"},"modified":"2023-03-06T11:31:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T16:31:41","slug":"there-are-no-squids-in-the-aquarium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/there-are-no-squids-in-the-aquarium\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;There are no squids in the aquarium&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/j-avatar-e1443983489508.png\" alt=\"by jen\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>The most extraordinary thing about the man<\/li>\n<li>The red uniform<\/li>\n<li>undergarments, sneakers<\/li>\n<li>Clearly, this man is a fuckwit.<\/li>\n<li>equipped with a single, huge gold-plated<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 779 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are no squids in the aquarium,&#8221; I said, feigning sadness. &#8220;No squids means no squid ink, and that means no tattoos for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t be so sure.&#8221; Tessa pointed across the concourse to a man on a bicycle. The airship&#8217;s official roving tattoo artist, I realized. What were the odds he&#8217;d be right where we were when Tessa got the urge?<\/p>\n<p>The bicycle sported a striped umbrella and a large box on the front like an ice cream cart. <em>The most extraordinary thing about the man<\/em>, though, was not his mode of transportation. <em>The red uniform<\/em>, visible <em>undergarments, sneakers<\/em>, and sunglasses were quite arresting. His mobile tattoo kiosk played an inane chiming tune on a loop.<\/p>\n<p>I turned to Tessa in puzzlement. &#8220;<em>Clearly, this man is a fuckwit.<\/em> All of the roving tattoo artists are. We can&#8217;t get tattoos from him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course not. We have to give them to each other. We&#8217;ll just get the ink from him.&#8221; She grabbed my hand and pulled me along as she flagged the artist down.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t have a choice as to color, for the artist was only <em>equipped with a single, huge gold-plated<\/em> bottle of ink, and it was as red as his uniform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Perfect!&#8221; Tessa cried. &#8220;I&#8217;ll buy the whole bottle.&#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>The most extraordinary thing about the man The red uniform undergarments, sneakers Clearly, this man is a fuckwit. equipped with a single, huge gold-plated Tune in next time part 779 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments &#8220;There are no squids in the aquarium,&#8221; I said, feigning sadness. &#8220;No squids means no squid ink, and [&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":[91,479,403,486],"class_list":["post-9223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-tattoo","tag-tune-in-next-time","tag-zeppelin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9223","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=9223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9228,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9223\/revisions\/9228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}