{"id":9188,"date":"2012-08-15T10:12:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T09:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=9188"},"modified":"2012-08-15T10:13:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T09:13:11","slug":"what-is-the-worst-opening-sentence-to-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=9188","title":{"rendered":"What is the worst opening sentence to a novel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an annual competition to determine the answer and you can see this year&#8217;s winner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bulwer-lytton.com\/2012win.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never written a novel, but I have crafted 28 short stories and I hope that none of them has such a terrible opening sentence. You can be the judge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/2010\/shortstories.shtml\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an annual competition to determine the answer and you can see this year&#8217;s winner here. I&#8217;ve never written a novel, but I have crafted 28 short stories and I hope that none of them has such a terrible opening sentence. You can be the judge here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9188"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9192,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9188\/revisions\/9192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}