{"id":3805,"date":"2013-03-21T03:07:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T03:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=3805"},"modified":"2013-03-21T03:07:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T03:07:23","slug":"54-great-opening-lines-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=3805","title":{"rendered":"54 great opening lines:  24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The verb &#8216;to read&#8217; does not tolerate the imperative, an aversion it shares with a few others:\u00a0 &#8216;to love&#8217; &#8230; &#8216;to dream&#8217; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Like a Novel (<\/em>originally <em>Comme un roman), <\/em>Daniel Pennac (my translation)<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read this book in French.\u00a0 On the back cover is a list of ten rights of a reader, which I found online in the printable form of an English language poster, and which I duly printed and stuck to the back of a particular door for everyone to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The verb &#8216;to read&#8217; does not tolerate the imperative, an aversion it shares with a few others:\u00a0 &#8216;to love&#8217; &#8230; &#8216;to dream&#8217; &#8230; Like a Novel (originally Comme un roman), Daniel Pennac (my translation) ***** I&#8217;ve read this book in French.\u00a0 On the back cover is a list of ten rights of a reader, which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=3805\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;54 great opening lines:  24&#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":[242,157],"tags":[306,156,2,246,21,226],"class_list":["post-3805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-54-great-opening-lines","category-french-literature-and-translation","tag-daniel-pennac","tag-french-literature","tag-literature","tag-opening-lines","tag-postaday","tag-postaday2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805","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=3805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}