{"id":4290,"date":"2013-06-10T07:33:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T07:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=4290"},"modified":"2018-08-27T20:00:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T10:00:57","slug":"54-great-opening-lines-51-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=4290","title":{"rendered":"54 great opening lines:  51"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Queen Maritorne was the terror of greedy thieving children: she reigned from the attic, where lines of pears and apples ripened, to the vat from which the wine was drawn; she was also the punishment for drunks, and without warning would leap out from the cask tapped by the dishonest valet.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><em>Queen Maritorne<\/em>, Jean Lorrain (Translated by me)<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\">*****<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\">This is the opener of a fairy tale I translated in France.\u00a0 I felt like I&#8217;d met her before, this queen who punishes overeaters and overdrinkers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen Maritorne was the terror of greedy thieving children: she reigned from the attic, where lines of pears and apples ripened, to the vat from which the wine was drawn; she was also the punishment for drunks, and without warning would leap out from the cask tapped by the dishonest valet. Queen Maritorne, Jean Lorrain &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=4290\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;54 great opening lines:  51&#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":[317,2,246,226,3],"class_list":["post-4290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-54-great-opening-lines","category-french-literature-and-translation","tag-jean-lorrain","tag-literature","tag-opening-lines","tag-postaday2013","tag-translation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290","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=4290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11358,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions\/11358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}