{"id":327,"date":"2017-08-18T06:37:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T06:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/?p=327"},"modified":"2019-05-23T09:43:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T09:43:28","slug":"flights-of-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"Flights Of Fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wpsocialite social-buttons large\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/?p=327&amp;locale=en_US&amp;t=\" class=\"socialite facebook-like\" data-lang=\"en_US\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/?p=327\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"60\" data-show-faces=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"vhidden\">Share on Facebook.<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"socialite twitter-share\" data-text=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/?p=327\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-lang=\"en_US\" data-via=\"@birdstoowit\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"vhidden\">Share on Twitter.<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>\u201cDo you need a lift,\u201d said a growling voice beside Casey, as she walked along the country road, making her turn and jump out of the way.<\/p>\n<p>She hadn\u2019t heard the car draw up beside her, but when she turned it was not a car at all but a purple eyed flying dragon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere are you going,\u201d she asked, thinking it best to humour the scaly monster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hills,\u201d said the dragon, between its huge whiter than white teeth. Trails of smoke drifting out of its wide nostrils.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many hills around here,\u201d said Casey, edging further into the hedge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut only one that matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy does it matter?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt holds my stash of gold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd no doubt the charred bones of unsuspecting maidens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly the ugly ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot the gold diggers?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh yes, maybe a few of those as well,\u201d said the impatient Dragon, growing tired of trying to make conversation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere do you think I fit in?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell you\u2019re very pretty of course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow would you know. I thought beauty for you would be another lady dragon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFew and far between these days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDragons or lady dragons?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth. St George has a lot to answer for you know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, bit of a tyrant that one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, he killed my father. Mind you he was a bit long in the tooth.\u201d said the dragon, baring his foot-long incisors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell he was attacking the village, what do you expect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe used a long sword and that wasn\u2019t in the script.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a script?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFigure of speech. Talking of which you do have a fine figure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Casey twirled around. \u201cYou think so?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, so what\u2019s it to be?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI prefer to keep my flesh on my bones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because of copywrite in fringements, you&#8217;ll have to buy the book once published to read more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDo you need a lift,\u201d said a growling voice beside Casey, as she walked along the country road, making her turn and jump out of the way. She hadn\u2019t heard the car draw up beside her, but when she turned it was not a car at all but a purple eyed flying dragon. \u201cWhere are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}