{"id":8679,"date":"2017-10-08T14:59:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T19:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/?p=8679"},"modified":"2017-10-08T14:59:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T19:59:18","slug":"crooked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/crooked\/","title":{"rendered":"Crooked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/crooked-1002x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/crooked-1002x1024.jpg 1002w, https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/crooked-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/crooked-768x784.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/crooked-489x500.jpg 489w, https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/crooked.jpg 1863w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;I <em>know<\/em> that name.&#8217;<\/strong> A crumpled old sailor shuffled toward me from the shadowy corner of the public house, listing sideways as he steadily worked the floor with his mangrove cane. I couldn&#8217;t be certain if this was the fellow they called Billy Bones or the legendary Ben Gunn himself, but the man was a crooked creature, doubled over from years of arduous seafaring. As the distance closed between us with each labored breath, he churned forth in a stench of briny sweat. The pungent odor of stale rum charged my nostrils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;I know that name.&#8217; A crumpled old sailor shuffled toward me from the shadowy corner of the public house, listing sideways as he steadily worked the floor with his mangrove cane. I couldn&#8217;t be certain if this was the fellow they called Billy Bones or the legendary Ben Gunn himself, but the man was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[57],"tags":[729,730,682],"class_list":["post-8679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inktober","tag-crooked","tag-pirates","tag-sailor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3XRuE-crooked","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8681,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679\/revisions\/8681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}