{"id":2,"date":"2020-03-29T20:50:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T20:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tinys-bs.com\/seastories\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2020-04-03T21:15:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T21:15:35","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tinys-bs.com\/seastories\/sample-page\/","title":{"rendered":"About Sea Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">What\u2019s a sea story?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">&#8220;Nautical fiction, frequently also naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a gen<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">re of literature with a setting on or near the sea that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments.\u00a0 The settings of nautical fiction vary greatly, including merchant ships, liners, naval ships, fishing vessels, life boats, etc., along with sea ports and fishing villages.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">After I read that article on Wikipedia, I realized something new.\u00a0 For more than fifty years, I\u2019ve often wondered why so many old sailors started their tales with the admonition, \u201cThis ain\u2019t no shit, see!\u201d\u00a0 Now I finally know why.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>Sea stories are a lot like fairy tales.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve only noticed three differences:<br \/>1.\u00a0 Fairy tales start with &#8220;Once upon a time&#8221; instead of &#8220;This ain&#8217;t no defecation, see.<br \/>2.\u00a0 Fairy tales are usually told to children.\u00a0 Sea Stories are told to grown up children.<br \/>3.\u00a0 Fairy tales are made up stories.\u00a0 Sea stories are true, although usually embellished.<\/p>\r\n<p>Almost all of the stories in this blog are based on my own experiences.\u00a0 Like the old Dragnet show, I&#8217;ve changed the names to protect the innocent.\u00a0 I hope you enjoy them.<\/p>\r\n<p>A note on commenting:\u00a0 If you leave a comment, it won&#8217;t appear until I approve it.\u00a0 It might take a day or two, but other readers won&#8217;t see any spam.\u00a0 All comment information blocks are optional.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s a sea story? &#8220;Nautical fiction, frequently also naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments.\u00a0 The settings of nautical fiction &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tinys-bs.com\/seastories\/sample-page\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Sea Stories&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tinys-bs.com\/seastories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tinys-bs.com\/seastories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tinys-bs.com\/seastories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tinys-bs.com\/seastories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tinys-bs.com\/seastories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tinys-bs.com\/seastories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/tinys-bs.com\/seastories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tinys-bs.com\/seastories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}