{"id":10327,"date":"2021-04-07T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=10327"},"modified":"2021-04-06T20:06:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T03:06:44","slug":"first-lines-from-books-prompt-571","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/first-lines-from-books-prompt-571\/","title":{"rendered":"First Lines From Books . . . Prompt #571"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Bookshelf.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10328\" width=\"256\" height=\"307\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>First lines from books<\/strong> <strong>can inspire writing. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Choose one, or more, and Just Write!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy name is Ruth. I grew up with . . .\u201d \u2014 <em>Housekeeping <\/em>by Marilynne Robinson:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis was probably a mistake . . .\u201d \u2014<em>Letters from Paris<\/em> by Juliet Blackwell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith wobbly knees, I stood at the edge of the three-foot diving board.\u201d \u2014<em>Beyond Recovery <\/em>by Shawn Langwell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMarsh is no swamp. Marsh is a space of light, where grass grows in water, and water flows into the sky.\u201d \u2014<em>Where The Crawdads Sing<\/em> by Delia Owens<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe biggest irony about that night is that I was always scared to fly.\u201d \u2014<em>How to Walk Away<\/em> by Katherine Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First lines from books can inspire writing. Choose one, or more, and Just Write! \u201cMy name is Ruth. I grew up with . . .\u201d \u2014 Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson: \u201cThis was probably a mistake . . .\u201d \u2014Letters from Paris by Juliet Blackwell \u201cWith wobbly knees, I stood at the edge of the three-foot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[1190],"class_list":["post-10327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prompts","tag-writing-freely-just-write-writing-prompts-the-write-spot-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-2Gz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10329,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10327\/revisions\/10329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}