{"id":4068,"date":"2013-04-23T09:29:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T09:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=4068"},"modified":"2013-04-23T09:29:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T09:29:27","slug":"54-great-opening-lines-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=4068","title":{"rendered":"54 great opening lines:  42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just returned from a visit to my landlord &#8211; the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wuthering Heights<\/em>, Emily Bront\u00eb<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>A joyless book.\u00a0 I recently read it a second time in search of at least one happy moment but found none.\u00a0 Flicking through the book today, I came across passage after passage of violent thoughts.\u00a0 Take these three:<br \/>\n* &#8216;Wretched inmates!&#8217; I ejaculated, mentally, &#8216;you deserve perpetual isolation from your species for your churlish inhospitality.&#8217;<br \/>\n* He dashed his head against the knotted trunk; and, lifting up his eyes, howled, not like a man, but like a savage beast getting goaded to death with knives and spears.<br \/>\n* The charge exploded, and the knife, in springing back, closed into its owner&#8217;s wrist. Heathcliff pulled it away by main force, slitting up the flesh as it passed on, and thrust it dripping into his pocket.<\/p>\n<p>(The first line actually begins with the date 1801, but my WordPress theme formed a large block letter of the first character which made the date look ridiculous.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just returned from a visit to my landlord &#8211; the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bront\u00eb ***** A joyless book.\u00a0 I recently read it a second time in search of at least one happy moment but found none.\u00a0 Flicking through the book today, I came across passage &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=4068\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;54 great opening lines:  42&#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":[241,2,246,21,226,347],"class_list":["post-4068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-54-great-opening-lines","tag-19th-century-literature","tag-literature","tag-opening-lines","tag-postaday","tag-postaday2013","tag-wuthering-heights"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068","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=4068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}