{"id":3590,"date":"2026-08-18T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/?p=3590"},"modified":"2026-08-30T04:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T04:59:00","slug":"the-man-with-the-oddly-bronzed-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/the-man-with-the-oddly-bronzed-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man with the Oddly Bronzed Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p class=\"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-1 wp-block-paragraph\">The man with the oddly bronzed skin and thinning comb-over scowled into the cameras.&nbsp;<\/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\">\u201cVoting by mail is cheating and must be stopped. It leads to fraud and rigged elections, and unfairly favors the other party.\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\">He scrawled his signature on a document and held it high for all to see.&nbsp;<\/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\">\u201cTherefore, today, I have signed an executive order banning mail-in ballots, effective immediately.\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\">Later that day, he handed a sealed envelope to an aide. \u201cPlease put this in the mail today.\u201d<\/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\">The aide looked confused. \u201cAren\u2019t mail-in ballots illegal now?\u201d&nbsp;<\/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\">The man smirked. \u201cFor you, but not for me.\u201d<\/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\"><\/p>\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\">*****<\/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\">100-word micro-fiction, a Drabble<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man with the oddly bronzed skin and thinning comb-over scowled into the cameras.&nbsp; \u201cVoting by mail is cheating and must be stopped. It leads to fraud and rigged elections, and unfairly favors the other party.\u201d He scrawled his signature on a document and held it high for all to see.&nbsp; \u201cTherefore, today, I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3591,"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":[26],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-3590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-satire","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\/2026\/08\/The_Man_With_the_Oddly_Bronzed_Skin.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590","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=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4023,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions\/4023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}