{"id":3707,"date":"2013-03-11T07:48:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T07:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=3707"},"modified":"2018-08-27T19:26:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T09:26:44","slug":"54-great-opening-lines-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=3707","title":{"rendered":"54 great opening lines:  17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was once an art critic, I have been told, who had a sure way of identifying ancient Maltese art objects:\u00a0 he found himself crying before them.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lest Innocent Blood be Shed<\/em>, Philip Hallie<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>The story of a village in the south of France, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, where every household and farm sheltered or hid refugees between 1941 and 1944, under penalty of death.\u00a0 In four years, thousands of Jewish refugees were saved;\u00a0 only nineteen were lost.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3709\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3709\" style=\"width: 562px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/11\/54-great-opening-lines-17\/le-chambon-sur-lignon\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3709\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3709\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/le-chambon-sur-lignon.jpg?w=562\" alt=\"Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, looking over the railway line on which refugees arrived from 1941-1944\" width=\"562\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/le-chambon-sur-lignon.jpg 2304w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/le-chambon-sur-lignon-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/le-chambon-sur-lignon-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/le-chambon-sur-lignon-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3709\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, looking over the railway line on which refugees arrived from 1941-1944<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was once an art critic, I have been told, who had a sure way of identifying ancient Maltese art objects:\u00a0 he found himself crying before them. Lest Innocent Blood be Shed, Philip Hallie ***** The story of a village in the south of France, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, where every household and farm sheltered or hid &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=3707\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;54 great opening lines:  17&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242,20],"tags":[4,206,296,2,246,297,7,8,21,226],"class_list":["post-3707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-54-great-opening-lines","category-my-photos","tag-1940s","tag-le-chambon-sur-lignon","tag-lest-innocent-blood-be-shed","tag-literature","tag-opening-lines","tag-philip-hallie","tag-photography","tag-photos-2","tag-postaday","tag-postaday2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11352,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions\/11352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}