{"id":932,"date":"2013-02-04T07:58:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T12:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=932"},"modified":"2013-12-31T21:16:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T02:16:06","slug":"the-crowd-was-getting-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/the-crowd-was-getting-ugly\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crowd Was Getting Ugly"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-13\" alt=\"by jen\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/j-avatar.png\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>Character &#8211; politician<\/li>\n<li>Setting &#8211; theatre<\/li>\n<li>Object &#8211; CD<\/li>\n<li>Situation &#8211; police intervention<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 24px;\">The crowd was getting ugly. Murmuring became grumbling, then hissing and catcalls. This was bad. I looked in desperation to my Secret Service agents, but they just smiled bemusedly. My damn advisers were wrong. No one was going for my new tax plan. The more I thought about it, the more certain I became. This was a set-up.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A bottle broke at my feet. A plastic cup flew past my head. My Secret Service agents disappeared. Emboldened, the crowd threw more garbage. And shoes. And lunch bags. Even a CD, which smacked me in the forehead.<\/p>\n<p>As my blood began to trickle, they went wild and rushed the podium. My football days weren&#8217;t so long ago, and I darted backstage. Trying to blend with the foot traffic outside, I slipped down the block to a movie theatre. I dashed to the box office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One for <em>Police Intervention<\/em>,&#8221; I said, and hurried inside.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"About 4 Elements Prompts\" href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/about-4-elements-prompts\/\">about 4 elements writing prompts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Writing Prompt Generator\" href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/writing-prompt-generator\/\">handy dandy writing prompt generator<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Character &#8211; politician Setting &#8211; theatre Object &#8211; CD Situation &#8211; police intervention The crowd was getting ugly. Murmuring became grumbling, then hissing and catcalls. This was bad. I looked in desperation to my Secret Service agents, but they just smiled bemusedly. My damn advisers were wrong. No one was going for my new tax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318,4],"tags":[156,155],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-four-elements-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-blood","tag-politician"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","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=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1880,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}