{"id":3090,"date":"2009-07-08T03:00:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3090"},"modified":"2009-07-08T03:00:50","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T08:00:50","slug":"another-dark-and-stormy-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3090","title":{"rendered":"Another Dark and Stormy Night?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bulwer-lytton.com\/2009.htm\">Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, 2009 results<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An international literary parody contest, the competition honors the memory (if not the reputation) of Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873). The goal of the contest is childishly simple: entrants are challenged to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels. Although best known for &#8220;The Last Days of Pompeii&#8221; (1834), which has been made into a movie three times, originating the expression &#8220;the pen is mightier than the sword,&#8221; and phrases like &#8220;the great unwashed&#8221; and &#8220;the almighty dollar,&#8221; Bulwer-Lytton opened his novel Paul Clifford (1830) with the immortal words that the &#8220;Peanuts&#8221; beagle Snoopy plagiarized for years, &#8220;It was a dark and stormy night.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the winner of the detective category, in case the contest description isn&#8217;t enough of an inducement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She walked into my office on legs as long as one of those long-legged birds that you see in Florida &#8211; the pink ones, not the white ones &#8211; except that she was standing on both of them, not just one of them, like those birds, the pink ones, and she wasn&#8217;t wearing pink, but I knew right away that she was trouble, which those birds usually aren&#8217;t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, 2009 results An international literary parody contest, the competition honors the memory (if not the reputation) of Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873). The goal of the contest is childishly simple: entrants are challenged to submit &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3090\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}