{"id":4884,"date":"2012-12-17T08:58:43","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T08:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=4884"},"modified":"2012-12-17T08:58:43","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T08:58:43","slug":"famous-first-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/famous-first-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous first words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Spectator<\/em> magazine recently ran a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/life\/competition\/8706991\/what-happened-next\/\" target=\"_blank\">competition<\/a> asking for the opening paragraph of an imagined sequel to a famous novel.\u00a0 One amusing entry, by Bill Greenwell, explained itself in just the first sentence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Call me Moby.\u00a0 Many moons ago \u2014 I have no idea how many \u2014 and having nothing better to do than bite off the leg of a raving lunatic, and head-butt a strange wooden contraption that was chasing me, I resolved to mooch across the expanse that I alone inhabit, singing a variety of sonic compositions. You may, doubtless, imagine my surprise when a lascivious invitation reached me from afar, together with jolly explanations of how I might beget another in my own likeness. Ah! that explained the sensation of longing deep within me, and the purpose of my mysterious, extensible truncheon. I accounted it my destiny to manoeuvre my belly that I might raise a modest family, one single offspring \u2014 and in so doing, discredit the monstrous accounts of my fellow creatures (for so they are) who sought to rope and pierce me. I would have a man of a time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Bill Greenwell\/Moby-Dick<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spectator magazine recently ran a competition asking for the opening paragraph of an imagined sequel to a famous novel.\u00a0 One amusing entry, by Bill Greenwell, explained itself in just the first sentence: Call me Moby.\u00a0 Many moons ago \u2014 I have no idea how many \u2014 and having nothing better to do than bite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","p1","y2012","m12","d17","h08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}