{"id":1425,"date":"2020-01-20T09:03:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T14:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2020-01-20T09:47:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T14:47:53","slug":"body-piercing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1425","title":{"rendered":"Body Piercing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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T<\/a>hey called it \u2018Body Piercing.\u2019\u00a0 It was very rare, very risky\u2026for both the acrobat and the victim.\u00a0 Frisbee the Bouncer contemplated the origins of the maneuver he had just failed to properly execute. \u00a0Willy the Clown (the victim) was finally settling down a bit, allowing Frisbee some time to think: you see, audiences had gotten bored with traditional tumbling and acrobatics, even parkour had lost it\u2019s charm\u2026free-runners traversing buildings, flipping and spinning across rooftops and bridge rafters, bouncing\u00a0about from car to car in midtown traffic\u2026I mean, it\u2019s not as if everybody could do it nowadays, but people got bored seeing it all the time.<\/p>\n

New ideas evolved to shock and awe the masses, each more extreme, risky\u2026deadly.\u00a0 The \u2018Tongue In Cheek\u2019 was already banned in 17 states, the \u2018Cockeyed Cock\u2019 was responsible for 3 temporary deaths, 12 online divorces and 41 spontaneous abortions (in Tennessee alone)\u2026then came \u2018Body Piercing.\u2019\u00a0 It was like a grizzly car crash on the turnpike that you can\u2019t help staring at.\u00a0 Frisbee recalled that the most difficult part was the need to make an entrance (not what you\u2019re thinking).\u00a0 How does an acrobat bounce right through the center of an unsuspecting victim\u2019s body (without using an existing entrance \u2013 or exit?).\u00a0 Well, Frisbee was quite certain he had it all figured out\u2026but\u2026..well, look at the picture!<\/p>\n

Willy the Clown went quickly from surprise to horror, screaming bloody murder for 30 minutes straight\u2026now he was just pissed off at Frisbee, who kept mumbling, \u201cThat should have worked!\u2026Why didn\u2019t that work?\u201d over and over and over.<\/p>\n

Somebody call an ambulance\u2026!?!<\/p>\n

***I wrote this piece last week, sitting out in my new back yard, atop the loveliest snowdrift in the midnight sun, watching the flying reindeer dogfight\u00a0overhead.\u00a0 I\u2019m so happy in my vacation house at\u00a0the\u00a0North Pole.\u00a0 The image is a raw, red, rough sketch for my \u201cBody-Oddies” book.\u00a0 The publisher refuses to let us post any final artwork until the release date (tentatively May 1).\u00a0 Meanwhile you can find our first 4 books for sale by following the links\u00a0to my website or at our Etsy shop (search EEWbooks).\u00a0 -Marsha\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They called it \u2018Body Piercing.\u2019\u00a0 It was very rare, very risky\u2026for both the acrobat and the victim.\u00a0 Frisbee the Bouncer contemplated the origins of the maneuver he had just failed to properly execute. \u00a0Willy the Clown (the victim) was finally settling down a bit, allowing Frisbee some time to think: you see, audiences had gotten … Continue reading Body Piercing<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118,150],"tags":[210,248,38,176,99,256,257,96,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}