{"id":3564,"date":"2026-02-08T01:08:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=3564"},"modified":"2026-02-08T01:08:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:08:55","slug":"chapter-55-into-the-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=3564","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 55: Into the Deep"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"tldr\"><p>No TL;DR needed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This feels less like a standalone chapter, and more like an apology to the reader.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Dear Reader,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I am sorry for what happened in the prologue. Here is a nice, short, meaningless chapter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Robert Jordan<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>P.S. &#8212; Sorry!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, not much happens. It&#8217;s seven pages of denouement fluff. The gang gets back to the inn. Lady Amathera goes into hiding for a bit. Bayle Domon is tasked with dropping the male <em>a&#8217;dam<\/em> into the deepest part of the ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No TL;DR needed. This feels less like a standalone chapter, and more like an apology to the reader. Dear Reader, I am sorry for what happened in the prologue. Here is a nice, short, meaningless chapter. Robert Jordan P.S. &#8212; Sorry! So, not much happens. It&#8217;s seven pages of denouement fluff. The gang gets back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-shadow-rising","book-the-shadow-rising"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3564"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3572,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions\/3572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}