{"id":3737,"date":"2013-03-13T08:50:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T08:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=3737"},"modified":"2013-03-13T08:50:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T08:50:32","slug":"54-great-opening-lines-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=3737","title":{"rendered":"54 great opening lines:  19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.<\/p>\n<p><em>One Hundred Years of Solitude<\/em>, Gabriel\u00a0Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Some books have a title that tempts me to turn to the blurb;\u00a0 this is one of them.\u00a0 And then, even better, it has this great opening line.\u00a0 So I began reading.\u00a0 About\u00a0half-way through I put the book down.\u00a0 It lost me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel\u00a0Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez ***** Some books have a title that tempts me to turn to the blurb;\u00a0 this is one of them.\u00a0 And then, even &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=3737\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;54 great opening lines:  19&#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],"tags":[299,2,246,21,226,3],"class_list":["post-3737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-54-great-opening-lines","tag-gabriel-garcia-marquez","tag-literature","tag-opening-lines","tag-postaday","tag-postaday2013","tag-translation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737","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=3737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}