{"id":9974,"date":"2024-03-04T08:36:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T13:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9974"},"modified":"2024-03-04T15:57:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T20:57:20","slug":"if-i-recalled-correctly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/if-i-recalled-correctly\/","title":{"rendered":"If I Recalled Correctly"},"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\" \/>an ostrich almost killed Johnny<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIneffable!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>used only for hand-to-hand combat<\/li>\n<li>circled his thumbs<\/li>\n<li>part of me is starting to think maybe I might be kind of ready to think about<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 883 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If I recalled correctly, it was also William Penn XII who started a stampede of the Academy&#8217;s livestock that time when <em>an ostrich almost killed Johnny<\/em> (as John was known in his youth). Was Small Dennis trying to warn me that William was planning an ostrich stampede in the petting zoo? I hadn&#8217;t spent much time with my brother-in-law, but it didn&#8217;t seem like the sort of thing he would do.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I should incorporate the 12 from William&#8217;s name into my BareCheeks deciphering? If I did that the message became <em>&#8220;Ineffable!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the sort of word we at the Academy <em>used only for hand-to-hand combat<\/em>. Surely Small Dennis would not be so bold as to throw a word such as Ineffable around willynilly. I straightened up to my full height and studied Small Dennis&#8217;s hands. My eyes <em>circled his thumbs<\/em> several times before I concluded I had nothing to fear from him. His thumbs were as small as the rest of him.<\/p>\n<p>Was I reading too much into this? Was the BareCheeks cipher a red herring?<\/p>\n<p><em>Part of me is starting to think maybe I might be kind of ready to think about<\/em> maybe getting out of the spy business. It does a real number on my head sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>When was the last time I&#8217;d slept? Or eaten?<\/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>an ostrich almost killed Johnny \u201cIneffable!\u201d used only for hand-to-hand combat circled his thumbs part of me is starting to think maybe I might be kind of ready to think about Tune in next time part 883 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments If I recalled correctly, it was also William Penn XII who [&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":[91,76,403,551,486],"class_list":["post-9974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-horse","tag-tune-in-next-time","tag-wife","tag-zeppelin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9974","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=9974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9977,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9974\/revisions\/9977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}