{"id":38275,"date":"2025-12-22T16:40:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=38275"},"modified":"2025-12-24T12:01:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T17:01:02","slug":"oh-to-be-a-wooden-ship-sailing-an-endless-sea","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/oh-to-be-a-wooden-ship-sailing-an-endless-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, to Be a Wooden Ship, Sailing an Endless Sea!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve from time to time told friends who&#8217;ve asked what I&#8217;m working on that one story or another in progress is the  strangest thing I&#8217;ve ever written, but I&#8217;ve stopped doing that because after a while I realized &#8212; strangeness is no stranger to me. Strangeness is my normality.<\/p>\n<p>But having said all that, &#8220;Oh, to Be a Wooden Ship, Sailing an Endless Sea!,&#8221; released October 2025 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bizarro-Circus-Madness-Riley-Odell\/dp\/B0FY1TF3RC\/ref=sr_1_1\"><em>Bizarro Circus of Madness<\/em><\/a>, is definitely as strange one.<\/p>\n<p>The point of view characters include Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat, the trolly from the  Trolley Problem, the Ship of Theseus, and other hypothetical creations from thought experiments.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; strange? I leave that to you to decide. But it&#8217;s also a tale of found family, so perhaps not so strange after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve from time to time told friends who&#8217;ve asked what I&#8217;m working on that one story or another in progress is the strangest thing I&#8217;ve ever written, but I&#8217;ve stopped doing that because after a while I realized &#8212; strangeness is no stranger to me. Strangeness is my normality. But having said all that, &#8220;Oh, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38277,"parent":13,"menu_order":128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38275","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38275"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38300,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38275\/revisions\/38300"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}