{"id":228,"date":"2026-04-26T16:31:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondreading.skoldpadda.se\/?p=228"},"modified":"2026-04-26T16:31:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:31:58","slug":"going-postal-the-9000-year-prologue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"Going postal &#8211; The 9,000 Year Prologue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Going postal The 9,000 Year Prologue: The sea is basically\u2026 thick air.<br>And if a ship sinks deep enough into this \u201cwet air,\u201d it just stops sinking \u2014 and starts drifting instead. Underwater. Perfectly reasonable. Probably.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So down there, ancient ships just keep going.<br>Broken, half-rotten, with skeleton crews who never quite clocked out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No harbor. No destination. Just\u2026 eternal floating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s calm. Very calm. Uncomfortably calm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every now and then an anchor drops and ruins the silence \u2014 like someone dropping cutlery in the quietest, saddest dining room in existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conclusion:<br>In Discworld, death doesn\u2019t mean you stop working.<br>It just means you\u2019re stuck on the longest, most pointless business trip imaginable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going postal The 9,000 Year Prologue: The sea is basically\u2026 thick air.And if a ship sinks deep enough into this \u201cwet air,\u201d it just stops sinking \u2014 and starts drifting instead. Underwater. Perfectly reasonable. Probably. So down there, ancient ships just keep going.Broken, half-rotten, with skeleton crews who never quite clocked out. No harbor. No &#8230; <a title=\"Going postal &#8211; The 9,000 Year Prologue\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/?p=228\" aria-label=\"Read more about Going postal &#8211; The 9,000 Year Prologue\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,23,31],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-reflections","category-terry-pratchett-going-postal","tag-terry-pratchett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}