{"id":3788,"date":"2013-03-19T11:16:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T11:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=3788"},"modified":"2013-03-19T11:16:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T11:16:37","slug":"54-great-opening-lines-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=3788","title":{"rendered":"54 great opening lines:  22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was once a sly old fox with nine tails, who was very curious to know whether his wife was true to him:\u00a0 so he stretched himself out under a bench, and pretended to be dead as a mouse.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mrs Fox<\/em>, Brothers Grimm (Trans. unknown)<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m presently translating a few fairy tales and for inspiration have been going through a book of Grimm&#8217;s Fairy Tales.\u00a0 When I read this opening line I laughed and read it again.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found another version of the story entitled <em>How Mrs Fox Married Again<\/em>, which gives more of a clue about the plot than the simpler <em>Mrs Fox<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/19\/54-great-opening-lines-22\/mrsfox\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3789\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3789 aligncenter\" title=\"Illustration by Walter Crane\" alt=\"MrsFox\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/mrsfox.jpg\" width=\"593\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/mrsfox.jpg 593w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/mrsfox-300x102.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Illustration by Walter Crane, found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/19068\/19068-h\/19068-h.htm#illus-186\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was once a sly old fox with nine tails, who was very curious to know whether his wife was true to him:\u00a0 so he stretched himself out under a bench, and pretended to be dead as a mouse. Mrs Fox, Brothers Grimm (Trans. unknown) ***** I&#8217;m presently translating a few fairy tales and for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=3788\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;54 great opening lines:  22&#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":[2,304,246,21,226],"class_list":["post-3788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-54-great-opening-lines","tag-literature","tag-mrs-fox","tag-opening-lines","tag-postaday","tag-postaday2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788","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=3788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}