{"id":15221,"date":"2012-08-22T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T04:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=15221"},"modified":"2012-08-21T21:38:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T01:38:14","slug":"sublime-lines-from-awesome-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/08\/22\/sublime-lines-from-awesome-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Sublime Lines From Awesome Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, Joe Hill, at his blog &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/joehillfiction.com\/2012\/08\/good-lines\/\">http:\/\/joehillfiction.com\/2012\/08\/good-lines\/<\/a> &#8212; did a thing where he asked people to identify some of their favorite and most impactful sentences from books they&#8217;ve read, and I thought that was pretty rad. (Also rad, which is when Mister Joe said: &#8220;For me to really enjoy a book, I need to hear some music in the writer\u2019s sentences. I know it shouldn\u2019t matter. Story\u00a0<em>is<\/em> more important than style\u2026 yet if I don\u2019t like an author\u2019s voice, if they don\u2019t grab me with the sound and rhythms of their sentences, I can\u2019t fall under the spell of the narrative.&#8221; Uh, <em>hell yeah<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m posing the same question to you.<\/p>\n<p>Because I wanna know your answers.<\/p>\n<p>So. Pick a sentence you love from a book &#8212; something you read years ago, something you read just the other day, whatever &#8212; and post it below in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll pick a random commenter by the end of the day to get a free e-copy of <strong>BAIT DOG<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Dig it? Dug it? Do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Joe Hill, at his blog &#8212; http:\/\/joehillfiction.com\/2012\/08\/good-lines\/ &#8212; did a thing where he asked people to identify some of their favorite and most impactful sentences from books they&#8217;ve read, and I thought that was pretty rad. (Also rad, which is when Mister Joe said: &#8220;For me to really enjoy a book, I need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":{"0":"post-15221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-writing","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-3Xv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15221"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15227,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15221\/revisions\/15227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}