{"id":522,"date":"2016-08-08T20:54:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T20:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthonyjmelchiorri.com\/?p=522"},"modified":"2016-08-08T20:54:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T20:54:31","slug":"whats-in-a-name-the-tide-deadrise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthonyjmelchiorri.com\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in a name? The Tide: Deadrise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s be honest. Deadrise is the perfect name for a zombie-esque apocalyptic novel. Now in <em>The Tide<\/em>\u00a0the dead aren&#8217;t being reanimated like your typical Zed fest. Still\u00a0it&#8217;s a damn cool name, and I love it, but there&#8217;s something more to the name than a simple reference to reanimated corpses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As some of you know, I spent the better part of five years living and working in Maryland a short drive away from the Chesapeake Bay. The Bay is a wonderful ecological and historical part of the United States. I&#8217;ve visited Fort McHenry which played a famous role in the Battle of Baltimore. Francis Scott Key wrote &#8220;The Star Spangled Banner&#8221; about the flag whipping in the wind over the Chesapeak Bay fort.The bay itself connects over a hundred rivers and streams, and it contains a host of wildlife that rely on the habitats within it and surrounding it. I love driving over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge going from Annapolis toward the Eastern Shore of Maryland and passing over Kent Island. You&#8217;ve no doubt gotten a taste of these places in The Tide. So what does this have to do with\u00a0<em>Deadrise<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A significant portion of the story takes place in and around the bay, of course. And Deadrise is a sort of homage to the Chesapeake Bay deadrise, which is a fishing boat historically used in the Bay. Fishermen used (and still use) the crafts for everything from fishing to crabbing and oystering (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chesapeake_Bay_deadrise\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chesapeake_Bay_deadrise<\/a>).\u00a0You can read more about the boats on the Wikipedia page, along with a brief explanation of the nautical denotation of &#8220;deadrise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it. A name layered like an onion, fitting for The Tide. Multiple significant meanings related to\u00a0<em>The Tide<\/em>. Most importantly, though, is the question: Will the Hunters rise from the dead and take what is rightfully theirs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s be honest. Deadrise is the perfect name for a zombie-esque apocalyptic novel. Now in The Tide\u00a0the dead aren&#8217;t being reanimated like your typical Zed fest. Still\u00a0it&#8217;s a damn cool name, and I love it, but there&#8217;s something more to the name than a simple reference to reanimated corpses. &nbsp; As some of you know, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthonyjmelchiorri.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthonyjmelchiorri.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthonyjmelchiorri.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthonyjmelchiorri.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthonyjmelchiorri.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anthonyjmelchiorri.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthonyjmelchiorri.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthonyjmelchiorri.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthonyjmelchiorri.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthonyjmelchiorri.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}