{"id":14707,"date":"2026-05-09T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=14707"},"modified":"2026-05-09T14:35:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T19:35:36","slug":"tentacles-and-tides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=14707","title":{"rendered":"Tentacles and Tides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tentacles-and-Tides-by-Opal-Kingdom-Press.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tentacles-and-Tides-by-Opal-Kingdom-Press-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tentacles-and-Tides-by-Opal-Kingdom-Press-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tentacles-and-Tides-by-Opal-Kingdom-Press-640x1024.jpg 640w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tentacles-and-Tides-by-Opal-Kingdom-Press-768x1229.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tentacles-and-Tides-by-Opal-Kingdom-Press-960x1536.jpg 960w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tentacles-and-Tides-by-Opal-Kingdom-Press-1280x2048.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tentacles-and-Tides-by-Opal-Kingdom-Press.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Indians call it The Great Sea.  We call it the Great Lake Superior in 1853.  Mishipeshu guards it and does not appreciate the rising traffic of ships heading out to steal the copper from its domain.  It has been sinking ships and the death toll is rising.  Captain William Carter, hunter of otherworldly beings and threats to mankind, arrived in time to see &#8220;Mishipeshu Rising&#8221; to attack the steamboat Independence.  His mission, to stop the killing by whatever means are necessary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mishipeshu Rising&#8221; and many other fine stories about deep sea beasts are available now in the &#8220;Tentacles and Tides&#8221; anthology by Opal Kingdom Press.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0GT4RD13R\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0GT4RD13R<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indians call it The Great Sea. We call it the Great Lake Superior in 1853. Mishipeshu guards it and does not appreciate the rising traffic of ships heading out to steal the copper from its domain. It has been[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=14707\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diaries","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-medron-pryde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14708,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14707\/revisions\/14708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}