{"id":115,"date":"2026-10-02T09:18:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T09:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hoarde.net\/scribblings\/?post_type=fcn_story&#038;p=115"},"modified":"2026-10-08T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T15:14:00","slug":"there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-rail-pirate","status":"publish","type":"fcn_story","link":"https:\/\/www.hoarde.net\/scribblings\/story\/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-rail-pirate\/","title":{"rendered":"There Is No Such Thing As A Rail Pirate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Years ago this line, delivered in a clich\u00e9d pirate manner, came to mind; \u201c<em>Here we be, becalmed upon this desolate siding<\/em>\u201d. I have no memory of what spawned it, or why cartoonish pirates would be sailing on a rail network, though it may have had something to do with rail bikes, maybe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, the idea got kicked around a bit, and morphed into something in which such a ridiculous line could actually happen, though it also moved pretty far from that idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the record, this was years before I read Railsea by China Mi\u00e9ville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago this line, delivered in a clich\u00e9d pirate manner, came to mind; \u201cHere we be, becalmed upon this desolate siding\u201d. I have no memory of what spawned it, or why cartoonish pirates would be sailing on a rail network, though it may have had something to do with rail bikes, maybe? Anyway, the idea got kicked around a bit, and morphed into something\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"fcn_genre":[],"fcn_fandom":[],"fcn_character":[],"fcn_content_warning":[],"class_list":["post-115","fcn_story","type-fcn_story","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoarde.net\/scribblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fcn_story\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoarde.net\/scribblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fcn_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoarde.net\/scribblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/fcn_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoarde.net\/scribblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoarde.net\/scribblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fcn_story\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoarde.net\/scribblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fcn_story\/115\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoarde.net\/scribblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoarde.net\/scribblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoarde.net\/scribblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"fcn_genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoarde.net\/scribblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fcn_genre?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"fcn_fandom","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoarde.net\/scribblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fcn_fandom?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"fcn_character","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoarde.net\/scribblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fcn_character?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"fcn_content_warning","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoarde.net\/scribblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fcn_content_warning?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}