{"id":1707,"date":"2026-08-01T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2026-07-26T14:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T13:03:16","slug":"chapter-26-the-almost-true-true-story-of-the-canneries218","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/08\/01\/chapter-26-the-almost-true-true-story-of-the-canneries218\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 26 The Almost True True Story of The Canneries218"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/07\/31\/chapter-26-the-almost-true-true-story-of-the-canneries217\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page218 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/08\/02\/chapter-26-the-almost-true-true-story-of-the-canneries219\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>(Dramatically.)<br \/>\nWhen they got back to London, she dumped him.<\/p>\n<p>And got a cat!<\/p>\n<p>(Calmly.)<br \/>\nAnd that was the true, true story of The Canneries.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think this one was true?<\/p>\n<p><strong>AUDIENCE<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>(Jackanory Square reverberates with a resounding and unequivocal response.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No!<\/p>\n<p><strong>BENET<\/strong><br \/>\n(In a mix of humour and belligerence.)<br \/>\nThis one was completely true!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;o&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Benet receives a magnificent round of applause, the children are bouncing about with joy, they know that when Benet says it\u2019s \u201ccompletely true\u201d it almost certainly isn\u2019t! It\u2019s only when he says it\u2019s \u201cdefinitely true\u201d that they need to think about it!<\/p>\n<p>Around the Market Square people are making a bee line for Benet\u2019s hat.<\/p>\n<p>As the tips flood in, TomBaker and Rory are also on their feet at the front, helping Benet with extra hats. In part, the parents are paying the story teller a bit extra for entertaining their children so well, and in part, it\u2019s because they themselves were highly amused.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/07\/31\/chapter-26-the-almost-true-true-story-of-the-canneries217\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page218 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/08\/02\/chapter-26-the-almost-true-true-story-of-the-canneries219\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page218 \u2013 Next (Dramatically.) When they got back to London, she dumped him. And got a cat! (Calmly.) And that was the true, true story of The Canneries. Do you think this one was true? AUDIENCE (Jackanory Square reverberates with a resounding and unequivocal response.) No! BENET (In a mix of humour &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/08\/01\/chapter-26-the-almost-true-true-story-of-the-canneries218\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 26 The Almost True True Story of The Canneries218&#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\/1707"}],"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=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1708,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/1708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}