{"id":9873,"date":"2024-01-10T08:54:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T13:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9873"},"modified":"2024-01-08T16:13:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T21:13:05","slug":"on-the-one-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/on-the-one-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"On The One Hand"},"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\" \/>Her father\u2019s field was dentistry; her mother\u2019s was opera.<\/li>\n<li>truly powerful hair<\/li>\n<li>looked me straight in the eye and said, \u201cNo.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>but only on the Fourth of July<\/li>\n<li>now available in ice cream form<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 868 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, the number of conscious evil clowns in my immediate vicinity had just been halved, which was a good thing. But on the other hand, without BimBam to distract Titania it would no longer be possible to sneak away. Also, there was an increased chance of her discovering the deception with Big Dennis, even assuming Small Dennis didn&#8217;t lose his shit.<\/p>\n<p>It was very difficult to predict what Titania would do next. Thanks to Tessa, I knew a bit about her life before becoming the Crystal Clown. <em>Her father&#8217;s field was dentistry; her mother&#8217;s was opera.<\/em> That placed her at the confluence of smiles and overwrought performance, which perhaps explained how she ended up in clowning. Another thing I recalled Tessa saying about her deadliest sister was that she aspired to have <em>truly powerful hair<\/em>, and when I asked if that was some kind of euphemism she <em>looked me straight in the eye and said, &#8220;No.&#8221;<\/em> Of course, I&#8217;d gotten up close and personal with Titania and thus learned a few things directly. For instance, she can recite all the countries of South America and their capitals, <em>but only on the Fourth of July<\/em>, and she was thrilled to find out that headaches are <em>now available in ice cream form<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;d racked my brains for useful factoids, Titania had come over and was now whispering something into Small Dennis&#8217;s ear.<\/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>Her father\u2019s field was dentistry; her mother\u2019s was opera. truly powerful hair looked me straight in the eye and said, \u201cNo.\u201d but only on the Fourth of July now available in ice cream form Tune in next time part 868 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments On the one hand, the number of conscious [&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-9873","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\/9873","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=9873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9876,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873\/revisions\/9876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}