{"id":744,"date":"2026-02-11T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=744"},"modified":"2026-02-08T06:51:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:51:32","slug":"chapter-2-charming-or-tedious013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/11\/chapter-2-charming-or-tedious013\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 2 Charming or Tedious013"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/10\/chapter-2-charming-or-tedious012\/\">Previous<\/a> \u2013 Book1 Page13 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/12\/chapter-2-charming-or-tedious014\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>Libraries have tried to retain as much printed material as they can. However, technical manuals were previously held only by the businesses that wanted them, usually as PDFs!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;o&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought you were meeting BarmyWaffle today?\u201d says Franklin.<\/p>\n<p>Both Franklin and Faraday are a little surprised when NutJob turns up at the PrintWorks for side project time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s complicated! He was in a rush, we had a thirty second chat and we\u2019re going to meet properly next week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bennie and Michael Scott, better known as Franklin and Faraday, run <em>The Lancastrian<\/em>. They\u2019d like to retire soon, but they\u2019re passionate about delivering the news. Franklin started work at the newspaper as a fifteen year old trainee journalist.<\/p>\n<p>She travelled a lot, learnt all the languages in and around the Irish Sea, and has become extremely popular, and well respected. And knowledgeable!<\/p>\n<p>An outgoing, bubbly lady, she has lots of friends.<\/p>\n<p>Faraday is much more introverted, an electrical and mechanical engineer by trade, he has been able to maintain the twenty second century printing presses in working order much longer than the manufacturer\u2019s guidelines. Nobody makes these printing presses any more.<\/p>\n<p>Building on the engineering heritage of Wolfland, Faraday wants to build his own sustainable presses and he needs a bit of help. He\u2019s almost fifty years older than NutJob, and in spite of that, the two of them get along incredibly well!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSide project?\u201d asks NutJob inquisitively, \u201cwhere did this <em>Wednesday Side Project<\/em> idea come from?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a long standing tradition you know,\u201d says Faraday, \u201cFranklin did some research on it a while back,\u00a0 and wrote up a <em>Bite Size History<\/em> report, it\u2019s up on the Archive Wall somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along the wall down one side of the PrintWorks there\u2019s a collection of framed articles. A little faded in places, but well<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/10\/chapter-2-charming-or-tedious012\/\">Previous<\/a> \u2013 Book1 Page13 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/12\/chapter-2-charming-or-tedious014\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous \u2013 Book1 Page13 \u2013 Next Libraries have tried to retain as much printed material as they can. However, technical manuals were previously held only by the businesses that wanted them, usually as PDFs! &#8212;o&#8212; \u201cI thought you were meeting BarmyWaffle today?\u201d says Franklin. Both Franklin and Faraday are a little surprised when NutJob turns &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/11\/chapter-2-charming-or-tedious013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 2 Charming or Tedious013&#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\/744"}],"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=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}