{"id":950,"date":"2013-02-20T07:59:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T12:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=950"},"modified":"2013-12-31T21:24:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T02:24:57","slug":"get-on-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/get-on-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Get On With It!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-24\" alt=\"k-avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/k-avatar.png\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>Character &#8211; morose existentialist<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Setting &#8211; rowboat<\/li>\n<li>Object &#8211; bottle of champagne, box of saltines, jar of caviar, bag of pork rinds, candy cane<\/li>\n<li>Situation &#8211; first day at the new job<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 24px;\">&#8220;Get on with it!&#8221; Vernon&#8217;s irritation had overflowed the vessel he kept it in, and he\u00a0\u00a0shouted everything he said. &#8220;Launch the goddamn boat!&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Maurice grasped the neck of the magnum of Dom Perignon, half-lidded eyes directed at the prow of the boat. The &#8220;Cygnet&#8221; rested in dry dock awaiting her maiden voyage. This morning, Maurice had begun his new job of christening each new vessel assembled by Barking Brothers&#8217; Boatworks, and this twelve-foot rowboat would be his third launch.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice-Presidents of Sales and Operations sat aboard the Cygnet, eating caviar on saltines, while Vernon Barking munched pork rinds and Vincent Barking sucked a candy cane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Smash the bottle!&#8221; Vernon screamed, showering all with porcine crumbs.<\/p>\n<p>Maurice sighed. &#8220;Are not all our moments like the christening of a ship? Each breath, an uncertain endeavor in what could be a leaky deathtrap?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He swung the bottle listlessly and jolted the Cygnet from her moorings, and she capsized amid the shrieks of corporate executives.<\/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; morose existentialist Setting &#8211; rowboat Object &#8211; bottle of champagne, box of saltines, jar of caviar, bag of pork rinds, candy cane Situation &#8211; first day at the new job &#8220;Get on with it!&#8221; Vernon&#8217;s irritation had overflowed the vessel he kept it in, and he\u00a0\u00a0shouted everything he said. &#8220;Launch the goddamn boat!&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318,4],"tags":[330,342],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-four-elements-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-alcohol","tag-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","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=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}