{"id":209,"date":"2013-08-22T15:05:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T15:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/?p=209"},"modified":"2013-08-22T15:07:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T15:07:53","slug":"best-opening-lines-from-childrens-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Best Opening Lines from Children&#8217;s Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/windsorpl\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a>, we have something called &#8220;First Line Fridays,&#8221; which, as the name suggests, focuses on intriguing first lines from literature.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve recently come across an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/harpercollins\/16-of-the-best-opening-lines-from-childrens-books-9npd\" target=\"_blank\">BuzzFeed.com<\/a>, which has conveniently compiled a similar list, but focusing specifically on books written for children.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve come up with 16 gems, designed to get readers hooked into reading more.\u00a0 Any other great first lines you can think of that are not on this list?\u00a0 We&#8217;d love to hear suggestions in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on our Facebook page, we have something called &#8220;First Line Fridays,&#8221; which, as the name suggests, focuses on intriguing first lines from literature.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve recently come across an article on BuzzFeed.com, which has conveniently compiled a similar list, but focusing specifically on books written for children.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve come up with 16 gems, designed to &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/?p=209\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}