{"id":5151,"date":"2013-10-23T23:46:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T23:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=5151"},"modified":"2013-10-23T23:46:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T23:46:22","slug":"journey-to-the-centre-great-middle-lines-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=5151","title":{"rendered":"Journey to the centre: Great middle lines &#8211; 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Sleeper Awakes.<\/em>\u00a0 It&#8217;s 1890s England when an insomniac falls into a sleep-like trance and awakes 203 years later to find he is the Master of the World.\u00a0 But while he had been sleeping, the masses had been oppressed, and they now find he has awoken and hope he will rescue them.\u00a0 One hundred and ten pages into this 220-page H.G. Wells novel, the sleeper, Graham, decides to reveal himself to the multitudes of people waiting:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">&#8220;Will you let them see you, Sire? said Ostrog.\u00a0 &#8220;They are very anxious to see you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">Graham hesitated, and then walked forward to where the broken verge of wall dropped sheer. He stood looking down, a lonely, tall, black figure against the sky.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">Very slowly the swarming ruins became aware of him.\u00a0 And as they did so little bands of black-uniformed men appeared remotely, thrusting through the crowds towards the Council House.\u00a0 He saw little black heads become pink, looking at him, saw by that means a wave of recognition sweep across the space.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">*****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sleeper Awakes.\u00a0 It&#8217;s 1890s England when an insomniac falls into a sleep-like trance and awakes 203 years later to find he is the Master of the World.\u00a0 But while he had been sleeping, the masses had been oppressed, and they now find he has awoken and hope he will rescue them.\u00a0 One hundred and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=5151\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Journey to the centre: Great middle lines &#8211; 15&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[241,309,2,462,463,21,226,484,270],"class_list":["post-5151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-great-middle-lines","tag-19th-century-literature","tag-h-g-wells","tag-literature","tag-middle-lines","tag-novels","tag-postaday","tag-postaday2013","tag-the-sleeper-awakes","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151","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=5151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}