{"id":132979,"date":"2017-03-04T19:52:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T19:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/04\/famous-first-and-second-lines.html"},"modified":"2017-03-04T19:52:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T19:52:01","slug":"famous-first-and-second-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/04\/famous-first-and-second-lines.html","title":{"rendered":"Famous First (and Second) Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ha! For example, <i>Don Quixote:<\/i> <\/p>\n<p><i>Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>And then the murders began.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Or <i>The Great Gatsby:<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I&#39;ve been turning over in my mind ever since.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>And then the murders began.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe <i>Harry Potter and the Camber of Secrets:<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Not for the first time, an argument had broken out over breakfast at number four, Privet Drive.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>And then the murders began.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Or, of course, <i>LIttle Women:<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&quot;Christmas won&#39;t be Christmas without any presents,&quot; grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>And then the murders began.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s fun for the entire literary family.<\/p>\n<p>[h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/105138568577624786912\" oid=\"105138568577624786912\">Doyce Testerman<\/a><\/span>]<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Michael &ldquo;Draco&rdquo; R<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/117214019627144250544\/albums\/6393395686921249377\/6393395686650619730'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/--eG77mZOhoQ\/WLnngNtTJ1I\/AAAAAAAATp4\/OZlMIZTTZr4DYGSZaWhSNqlICZOqmYPlACJoC\/001?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Jo5erurNqgC'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ha! For example, Don Quixote: Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing. And then the murders began. &#8212;&#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/04\/famous-first-and-second-lines.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Famous First (and Second) Lines&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/001imgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11487,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/16\/he_turned_me_into_a_newt.html","url_meta":{"origin":132979,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;He turned me into a Newt!&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 16-Aug-07 1:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cAs an American, I am sickened that the political leadership of America could continue to go on vacation and do nothing,\u201d he said. \u201cWhy are the August vacations for the...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elections 2008&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5226,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/23\/sauce_for_the_g.html","url_meta":{"origin":132979,"position":1},"title":"Sauce for the goose","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 23-Apr-04 10:21am","format":false,"excerpt":"Speaking of PETA, they've had to pull recent ads they were running up in Canada which were exploiting a grisly set of murders. 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