{"id":1782,"date":"2004-10-03T15:52:08","date_gmt":"2004-10-03T19:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2010-07-12T10:56:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T14:56:15","slug":"first-lines-not-yet-guessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1782","title":{"rendered":"First Lines not yet guessed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The below are un-guessed first lines of novels (from a game played here all weekend).<\/p>\n<p>Anyone?  NO CHEATING.  Google it if you like, but if you do so &#8211; don&#8217;t post it.  Someone will guess it.<\/p>\n<p>1.  A screaming comes across the sky.<\/p>\n<p>2.  Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, &#8220;and what is the use of a book,&#8221; thought Alice, &#8220;without pictures or conversations?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Note:  This is obviously from ONE of the 2 Lewis Carroll books about Alice.  The question now is: which one??  (Er &#8211; isn&#8217;t that how one of his books ends?  &#8220;Which one do you think it was?&#8221;)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>3.  Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s IT!<\/p>\n<p>Excellent work, everyone.  I am humbled and awed by each and every one of you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The below are un-guessed first lines of novels (from a game played here all weekend). Anyone? NO CHEATING. Google it if you like, but if you do so &#8211; don&#8217;t post it. Someone will guess it. 1. A screaming comes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1782\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17677,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/17677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}