{"id":248,"date":"2026-10-27T20:27:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T20:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prestonorrick.com\/?p=248"},"modified":"2026-10-27T20:28:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T20:28:55","slug":"the-armchair-skeptic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prestonorrick.com\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"The Armchair Skeptic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am very honored to announce the soon-to-be-released book, The Armchair Skeptic. The black-and-white book is dedicated to my Uncle Chris Orrick and father, Peter Orrick. It contains Chris\u2019 cryptozoology research from Champy to Steller\u2019s Sea Ape to Yeti and more. It includes custom drawings and illustrations from different (human) artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>[Available Soon]<\/em> \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"785\" src=\"https:\/\/prestonorrick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Armchair-Skeptic_3D-Cover-Mockup-1024x785.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-249\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3045127038301099;width:264px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prestonorrick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Armchair-Skeptic_3D-Cover-Mockup-1024x785.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prestonorrick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Armchair-Skeptic_3D-Cover-Mockup-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prestonorrick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Armchair-Skeptic_3D-Cover-Mockup-767x588.jpg 767w, https:\/\/prestonorrick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Armchair-Skeptic_3D-Cover-Mockup.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am very honored to announce the soon-to-be-released book, The Armchair Skeptic. The black-and-white book is dedicated to my Uncle Chris Orrick and father, Peter Orrick. It contains Chris\u2019 cryptozoology research from Champy to Steller\u2019s Sea Ape to Yeti and more. It includes custom drawings and illustrations from different (human)&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/prestonorrick.com\/?p=248\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Armchair Skeptic<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prestonorrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prestonorrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prestonorrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prestonorrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prestonorrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/prestonorrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/prestonorrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prestonorrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prestonorrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prestonorrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}