{"id":4966,"date":"2013-09-30T12:48:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T12:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=4966"},"modified":"2013-09-30T12:48:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T12:48:30","slug":"journey-to-the-centre-great-middle-lines-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=4966","title":{"rendered":"Journey to the centre:  Great middle lines &#8211; 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes at the centre of a novel a new character is introduced who changes everything.\u00a0 In John Boyne&#8217;s <em>The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas,<\/em> it&#8217;s not until the middle that we meet the title character.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s then that everything changes for the German boy, Bruno:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">&#8220;The boy was smaller than Bruno and was sitting on the ground with a forlorn expression. He wore the same striped pyjamas that all the other people on that side of the fence wore, and a striped cloth cap on his head. He wasn&#8217;t wearing any shoes or socks and his feet were rather dirty. On his arm he wore an armband with a star on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">*****<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes at the centre of a novel a new character is introduced who changes everything.\u00a0 In John Boyne&#8217;s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, it&#8217;s not until the middle that we meet the title character.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s then that everything changes for the German boy, Bruno: &#8220;The boy was smaller than Bruno and was sitting &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=4966\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Journey to the centre:  Great middle lines &#8211; 7&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[4,460,480,2,462,463,226,481,270,155],"class_list":["post-4966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-great-middle-lines","tag-1940s","tag-20th-century-literature","tag-john-boyne","tag-literature","tag-middle-lines","tag-novels","tag-postaday2013","tag-the-boy-in-the-striped-pyjamas","tag-writing","tag-wwii"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966","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=4966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}