{"id":300725,"date":"2024-04-16T20:57:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T01:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.timeslips.org\/?post_type=story&p=300725"},"modified":"2024-04-16T20:57:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T01:57:26","slug":"just-desserts-crime-doesnt-pay-but-it-sure-tastes-sweet","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.timeslips.org\/resources\/creativity-center\/story\/just-desserts-crime-doesnt-pay-but-it-sure-tastes-sweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Desserts: Crime Doesn’t Pay, But it Sure Tastes Sweet!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a photo of a Prairie Hill potluck and Twyla was in charge of bringing one dessert. Clearly she overachieved. Pictured here is Myrtl Ethyl and her mother Gertrude Louise. Prairie Hill is hosting a fundraiser for a folk dancing company based in Chicago that knew some people in Iowa City. The dance company specializes in dances from Mongolia and Chile. Myrtl Ethyl and her mom appear as if they are serving the desserts. Rather, they are putting slices of cakes and pies in a box under the table where someone is pulling out the pieces to load on the airplane headed to Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Recently a rumor has surfaced about the folk dance company. It is alleged that the group has mafia connections as evidenced by the mafia hats in the background of the photo. They have come to Iowa City to use the still in the woods.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Little do they know there is a secret camera taking pictures as evidence and microphones hidden in the desserts. They are just not able to find the microphones currently so the search continues under the table as the pieces of dessert go through the box. Things will work out though. The camera is doing its job, and the criminals will be caught. This is a good thing because a little boy named Fox has been promised his choice of desserts when the criminals are rounded up.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a photo of a Prairie Hill potluck and Twyla was in charge of bringing one dessert. Clearly she overachieved. Pictured here is Myrtl Ethyl and her mother Gertrude Louise. Prairie Hill is hosting a fundraiser for a folk dancing company based in Chicago that knew some people in Iowa City. The dance company…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17698,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"prompt-category":[28],"prompt-tag":[121,31,33],"toolset-meta":{"story-fields":{"salesforce-id-of-author":{"type":"textfield","raw":"003TN000004cnX0YAI"},"training-status":{"type":"textfield","raw":"Not Started"},"training-level":{"type":"textfield","raw":"Certified Facilitator"},"authors-display-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":"Kate Fox"}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timeslips.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story\/300725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timeslips.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timeslips.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timeslips.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timeslips.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.timeslips.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story\/300725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300726,"href":"https:\/\/www.timeslips.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story\/300725\/revisions\/300726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timeslips.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"prompt-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timeslips.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prompt-category?post=300725"},{"taxonomy":"prompt-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timeslips.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prompt-tag?post=300725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}