{"id":3953,"date":"2013-04-03T06:35:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T06:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=3953"},"modified":"2013-04-03T06:35:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T06:35:35","slug":"54-great-opening-lines-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=3953","title":{"rendered":"54 great opening lines: 31"},"content":{"rendered":"

And then the queer sounds would begin again, heavy, rhythmic breathing, and muffled whimpers as though someone had his head pressed hard into a pillow, afraid he would be heard.<\/p>\n

Poor Man’s Orange<\/em>, Ruth Park<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

It’s a confident author who begins a novel with ‘And’.\u00a0 Perhaps because it was a sequel…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And then the queer sounds would begin again, heavy, rhythmic breathing, and muffled whimpers as though someone had his head pressed hard into a pillow, afraid he would be heard. Poor Man’s Orange, Ruth Park ***** It’s a confident author who begins a novel with ‘And’.\u00a0 Perhaps because it was a sequel…<\/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":[2,246,321,21,226,322],"class_list":["post-3953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-54-great-opening-lines","tag-literature","tag-opening-lines","tag-poor-mans-orange","tag-postaday","tag-postaday2013","tag-ruth-park"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953","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=3953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}