{"id":1660,"date":"2026-07-11T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2026-07-05T21:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:47:13","slug":"chapter-26-the-almost-true-true-story-of-the-canneries197","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/07\/11\/chapter-26-the-almost-true-true-story-of-the-canneries197\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 26 The Almost True True Story of The Canneries197"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/07\/10\/chapter-25-jackanory-square195\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page197 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/07\/12\/chapter-26-the-almost-true-true-story-of-the-canneries198\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p><strong>Chapter 26<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Almost True True Story of The Canneries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SCENE 1<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>(The Market Square in Lancaster, temporarily renamed Jackanory Square. An assembly of children aged from five and up are excited yet orderly. Benet is sitting on a large block of roughly hewn tree trunk taken from a Poplar tree, whilst holding a large, red, leather bound volume which appears to be a story book. Periodically he refers to the volume, but it contains only a few notes and serves as a simple aide memoire.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>BENET<\/strong><br \/>\n(Polite, regular, yet commanding voice, creating the air of a friendly school teacher.)<\/p>\n<p>Are we all sitting comfortably?<\/p>\n<p>Then I\u2019ll begin.<\/p>\n<p>May I first remind you of what Mark Twain said?<\/p>\n<p>In the real world, nothing ever happens in the right place at the right time. It is the task of historians and story tellers to rectify this error.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SCENE 2<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>(An image of desolate, desert islands is invoked.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>BENET<\/strong><br \/>\n(Mimicking the style of the famous story tellers of old, such as Bernard Cribbins or Kenneth Williams. Using an animated narrator\u2019s voice to invoke drama and suspense as required, and matching the tone and volume to the content of the story, where possible, adopting fictitious voices to represent different\u00a0 characters.)<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/07\/10\/chapter-25-jackanory-square195\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page197 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/07\/12\/chapter-26-the-almost-true-true-story-of-the-canneries198\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page197 \u2013 Next Chapter 26 The Almost True True Story of The Canneries SCENE 1 (The Market Square in Lancaster, temporarily renamed Jackanory Square. An assembly of children aged from five and up are excited yet orderly. Benet is sitting on a large block of roughly hewn tree trunk taken from a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/07\/11\/chapter-26-the-almost-true-true-story-of-the-canneries197\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 26 The Almost True True Story of The Canneries197&#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\/1660"}],"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=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}