{"id":9728,"date":"2017-10-03T10:08:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T23:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=9728"},"modified":"2018-08-18T11:41:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T01:41:31","slug":"46-great-opening-lines-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=9728","title":{"rendered":"46 Great Opening Lines: 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Hiding behind the hedge, the wolf was patiently watching the house.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Opening line, <em>The Wolf<\/em>, Marcel Aym\u00e9 (my translation)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9729\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9729\" style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9729 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/The-Wolf-Marcel-Ayme\u0301-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/The-Wolf-Marcel-Ayme\u0301-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/The-Wolf-Marcel-Ayme\u0301-768x1087.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/The-Wolf-Marcel-Ayme\u0301-723x1024.jpg 723w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/The-Wolf-Marcel-Ayme\u0301-1200x1699.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/The-Wolf-Marcel-Ayme\u0301.jpg 1458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover of &#8216;Les Contes bleus du chat perch\u00e9&#8217;, including &#8216;Le Loup&#8217; (The Wolf), Marcel Aym\u00e9, courtesy of Gallimard, publisher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>The Wolf<\/em> is a children&#8217;s story written by Marcel Aym\u00e9 in 1932. Aym\u00e9 is more famous for his science fiction\/fantasy stories, particularly about characters who have a supernatural ability, like walking through walls or existing only every second day. This story is about a wolf who convinces two small blonde girls (wolves prefer blondes) to let him into the house while their parents are out. The ending is a happy one, for the girls.<\/p>\n<p>The translation is mine. One day it might be published.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>*<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiding behind the hedge, the wolf was patiently watching the house. Opening line, The Wolf, Marcel Aym\u00e9 (my translation) The Wolf is a children&#8217;s story written by Marcel Aym\u00e9 in 1932. Aym\u00e9 is more famous for his science fiction\/fantasy stories, particularly about characters who have a supernatural ability, like walking through walls or existing only &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=9728\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;46 Great Opening Lines: 5&#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":[1088,157],"tags":[460,1106,1104,246,1105,3,270],"class_list":["post-9728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-46-great-opening-lines","category-french-literature-and-translation","tag-20th-century-literature","tag-gallimard","tag-marcel-ayme","tag-opening-lines","tag-the-wolf","tag-translation","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9728","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=9728"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11261,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9728\/revisions\/11261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}