{"id":9347,"date":"2023-05-22T09:01:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T13:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9347"},"modified":"2023-05-04T21:41:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T01:41:01","slug":"whatever-jason-and-lyudmila-are-up-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/whatever-jason-and-lyudmila-are-up-to\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Whatever Jason and Lyudmila are Up To&#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\" \/>Not Machiavellian, but<\/li>\n<li>a highly unusual practice<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m beginning to think<\/li>\n<li>Two coffees and four lagers later<\/li>\n<li>illicit parrot-smuggling operation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 801 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whatever Jason and Lyudmila are up to can&#8217;t be good,&#8221; Tessa whispered in my ear. &#8220;<em>Not Machiavellian, but<\/em> probably close.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whispering in front of your hostages is <em>a highly unusual practice<\/em>,&#8221; Tallman complained. &#8220;<em>I&#8217;m beginning to think<\/em> you don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tessa and I nodded at each other and turned the polarization controls up halfway. While our guests dealt with that, we sat at the bar to make plans over pickle beverages. <em>Two coffees and four lagers later<\/em> we were both queasy and had come to the conclusion that my twin and John&#8217;s sister were probably not involved in an <em>illicit parrot-smuggling operation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That left a lot of other options. We had to sober up and figure this out before the polarizing sofas&#8217; batteries ran out.<\/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>Not Machiavellian, but a highly unusual practice I\u2019m beginning to think Two coffees and four lagers later illicit parrot-smuggling operation Tune in next time part 801 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments &#8220;Whatever Jason and Lyudmila are up to can&#8217;t be good,&#8221; Tessa whispered in my ear. &#8220;Not Machiavellian, but probably close.&#8221; &#8220;Whispering in [&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":[91,403,486],"class_list":["post-9347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-tune-in-next-time","tag-zeppelin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347","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=9347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9378,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347\/revisions\/9378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}