{"id":2170,"date":"2025-06-09T03:13:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T03:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/?p=2170"},"modified":"2026-09-01T23:56:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T23:56:40","slug":"skippys-guilty-pleasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/skippys-guilty-pleasures\/","title":{"rendered":"Skippy&#8217;s Guilty Pleasures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\">Jimmy points to the empty container on the kitchen counter. \u201cOkay, Skippy, \u2018fess up!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\">I look away like I don\u2019t see him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSkippy?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-5 wp-block-paragraph\">I hang my head. I\u2019m busted. I say nothing; my guilt is written on my face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-6 wp-block-paragraph\">Jimmy gags. \u201cYuck, that\u2019s disgusting. But why? They were for my fishing trip tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-7 wp-block-paragraph\">Even if I could tell him, he wouldn\u2019t understand why I love those jumping little crickets \u2014 so crunchy, salty, and lip-smacking delicious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-8 wp-block-paragraph\">Jimmy chuckles and pats my head. \u201cYou silly mutt. From now on, I guess I need to buy a can of crickets just for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-9 wp-block-paragraph\">*Note: I used the following five prompts:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-10 wp-block-paragraph\">Length: 100 words <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-11 wp-block-paragraph\">POV: First Person. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-12 wp-block-paragraph\">Plot: A confession. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-13 wp-block-paragraph\">Location: One Room. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-14 wp-block-paragraph\">Tone: Sarcastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy points to the empty container on the kitchen counter. \u201cOkay, Skippy, \u2018fess up!\u201d I look away like I don\u2019t see him. \u201cSkippy?\u201d I hang my head. I\u2019m busted. I say nothing; my guilt is written on my face. Jimmy gags. \u201cYuck, that\u2019s disgusting. But why? They were for my fishing trip tomorrow.\u201d Even if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","tag-drabble"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":7}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Skippys-Guilty-Pleasures.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2170"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4176,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions\/4176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}