{"id":264,"date":"2019-02-08T12:48:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T12:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/?p=264"},"modified":"2018-12-06T14:04:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T14:04:42","slug":"tale-38-the-idle-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/2019\/02\/08\/tale-38-the-idle-wish\/","title":{"rendered":"Tale #38: The Idle Wish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lord was out hunting with his men on a hot summer\u2019s day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish I wasn\u2019t quite so hot,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>No sooner had he said this than his horse reared up in fright and he fell from its back into the river.<\/p>\n<p>His men laughed; the Lord drowned.<\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<p>1. <em>Written July 20th, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Support An Accumulation Of Things<\/a><\/h3><i>If you like the things you've read here please consider subscribing to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">patreon<\/a> or my <a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davidnguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ko-fi<\/a>. <\/br><\/br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patreon subscribers<\/a> get not just early access to content and also the occasional gift, but also my eternal gratitude. Which I'm not sure is very useful, but is certainly very real.<\/br><\/br>(<a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davidnguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ko-fi contributors<\/a> probably only get the gratitude I'm afraid, but please get in touch if you want more). <\/br><\/br>Thank you!<\/i><\/br><\/br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lord was out hunting with his men on a hot summer\u2019s day. \u201cI wish I wasn\u2019t quite so hot,\u201d he said. No sooner had he said this than his horse reared up in fright and he fell from its back into the river. His men laughed; the Lord drowned. __________ Notes: 1. Written July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[20,21,23,22,74],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-thousand-and-one-tales","tag-a-thousand-and-one-tales","tag-fairy-tales","tag-fiction","tag-folk-tales","tag-wishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}