{"id":9207,"date":"2015-07-23T17:52:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T17:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9207"},"modified":"2015-07-23T17:52:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T17:52:46","slug":"tor-is-wrong-about-the-best-first-line-of-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/07\/tor-is-wrong-about-the-best-first-line-of-a-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Tor is wrong about the best first line of a novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/2015\/07\/21\/five-fantasy-novels-with-perfect-opening-lines\/\">Not that the five opening lines suggested on Tor.com by Soman Chainani<\/a> are bad first lines, but?the best first line is not from Peter Pan and Wendy, Neuromancer, Feed, The Last Voyage Of The Dawn Treader, or The Magicians. The best first line is this&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Through the ruin of a city stalked the ruin of a man.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As for where the line is from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that the five opening lines suggested on Tor.com by Soman Chainani are bad first lines, but?the best first line is not from Peter Pan and Wendy, Neuromancer, Feed, The Last Voyage Of The Dawn Treader, or The Magicians. The best first line is this&#8230; Through the ruin of a city stalked the ruin of a man. As for where the line is from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25],"tags":[5419,5420,5421],"class_list":["post-9207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","tag-first-line","tag-terrence-dicks","tag-ya","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2ov","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9208,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207\/revisions\/9208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}