{"id":1624,"date":"2026-06-26T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2026-06-21T08:08:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T07:08:35","slug":"chapter-23-explosive-developments178","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/06\/26\/chapter-23-explosive-developments178\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 23 Explosive Developments178"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/06\/25\/chapter-23-explosive-developments177\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page178 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/06\/27\/chapter-23-explosive-developments179\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>\u201cSee!\u201d says NutJob \u201cwhat does all that mean? It\u2019s the same as the first one. It could mean anything!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou philistine! This is great news. I\u2019m going to make a new friend. Maybe it\u2019ll be CelesteEmbrace? I want to meet her. She and I would really get along, this is the best thing I\u2019ve seen in the paper for ages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NutJob thinks he may have touched on a raw nerve with his clumsy comments. In order to avoid any more explosive developments in future, he thinks that he might need to modify his attitude to horoscopes. The last thing he wants is to make a sensitive issue worse. He tries to back pedal and see if he can minimise the friction.<\/p>\n<p>Diplomatically he says, \u201cI\u2019ll see if I can find out who CelesteEmbrace is, the next time I see Franklin and Faraday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;o&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow does this one sound?\u201d asks Franklin.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"642\">When life is messy and disorganised you can feel anxious. You\u2019re struggling to find common ground with a loved one. You might even wonder whether you will ever really understand each other. Remember, you aren\u2019t losing control, you\u2019re the one who\u2019s\u00a0 in a delicate place right now, and those close to you can help. Take a deep breath, things will improve soon, a nice day out, or a meal at a special restaurant will set you on the right path again.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u201cPlausible. Who did that one?\u201d asks Faraday, \u201cwho\u2019s it for?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTigger and Marcus worked on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat explains it! It\u2019s a covert advert for Magnum Opus!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re willing to pay us to drop subliminal messages into the paper from time to time. Like an advertorial, but more subtle.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/06\/25\/chapter-23-explosive-developments177\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page178 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/06\/27\/chapter-23-explosive-developments179\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page178 \u2013 Next \u201cSee!\u201d says NutJob \u201cwhat does all that mean? It\u2019s the same as the first one. It could mean anything!\u201d \u201cYou philistine! This is great news. I\u2019m going to make a new friend. Maybe it\u2019ll be CelesteEmbrace? I want to meet her. She and I would really get along, this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/06\/26\/chapter-23-explosive-developments178\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 23 Explosive Developments178&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1625,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions\/1625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}