{"id":1626,"date":"2026-06-27T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2026-06-21T08:11:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T07:11:52","slug":"chapter-23-explosive-developments179","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/06\/27\/chapter-23-explosive-developments179\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 23 Explosive Developments179"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/06\/26\/chapter-23-explosive-developments178\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page179 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/06\/28\/chapter-23-explosive-developments180\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t mind advertorials,\u201d says Faraday, \u201cbut subterfuge goes against the ethos of <em>The Lancastrian<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not subterfuge, it\u2019s a lightly doctored horoscope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTalk to Honey and Julia about this, do they know what the lads are doing? I don\u2019t mind helping Magnum Opus, but we need to keep it on a professional level. And I don\u2019t want to favour one restaurant over the others. They\u2019re all potential advertisers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo business is business?\u201d asks NutJob, \u201cand anyway, who is this CelesteEmbrace?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a secret,\u201d says Franklin, \u201cbut you can guess that it\u2019s not just one person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019s supposed to be a bit of fun,\u201d says Faraday, \u201csomething to get more people interested in picking up the paper. But I don\u2019t trust horoscopes or the people who write them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can say that again,\u201d says NutJob, \u201cI don\u2019t trust them either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not all make believe you know,\u201d says Franklin, \u201cthere are genuine values and ethics in there, and the flowery bits are added later to make the passages more thought provoking. The team at the Coliseum work hard on these. Ooh, I didn\u2019t say that!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Noble Coliseum?\u201d asks NutJob, \u201cAuntSylvie?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just one person,\u201d says Franklin sternly, \u201cand keep this to yourself. We\u2019re trying to build intrigue and drum up some more business. If you tell anybody, even Kristal, you\u2019ll destroy the work we\u2019ve already done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Changing the subject slightly NutJob says, \u201cyou could get the caf\u00e9s and restaurants involved in a regular food column. Recipes or something, a <em>Try This At Home<\/em> article. That would give them all publicity, each one in turn, or at least the ones that would pay a small fee to be featured?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmart thinking!\u201d says Faraday.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin nods in agreement, \u201cthat\u2019s worth exploring, thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/06\/26\/chapter-23-explosive-developments178\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page179 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/06\/28\/chapter-23-explosive-developments180\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page179 \u2013 Next \u201cI don\u2019t mind advertorials,\u201d says Faraday, \u201cbut subterfuge goes against the ethos of The Lancastrian.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s not subterfuge, it\u2019s a lightly doctored horoscope.\u201d \u201cTalk to Honey and Julia about this, do they know what the lads are doing? I don\u2019t mind helping Magnum Opus, but we need to keep &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/06\/27\/chapter-23-explosive-developments179\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 23 Explosive Developments179&#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\/1626"}],"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=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1627,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions\/1627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}