{"id":314,"date":"2006-09-27T16:27:08","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T16:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/27\/the-crow-road\/"},"modified":"2011-03-08T09:30:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T09:30:59","slug":"the-crow-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/27\/the-crow-road\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crow Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image313\" alt=\"The Crow Road\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/the%20crow%20road2.gif\" class=\"alignright\"\/>I&#8217;m reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Crow-Road-Iain-Banks\/dp\/0349103232\">The Crow Road<\/a> by <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Iain Banks\" title=\"Iain Banks\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iain%20Banks\" rel=\"tag\">Iain Banks<\/a> at the moment. I&#8217;m enjoying it even if I can only manage to read about a chapter a day, due to commitments&#8230; anyway so far my favourite opening paragraphs to a chapter are;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nRight, now this isn&#8217;t as bad as it sounds, but&#8230; I was in bed with my Aunty Janice.<br \/>\nWell, actually, in one sense it&#8217;s exactly as bad as it sounds because when I say I was in bed with her, I don&#8217;t mean I was in bed with her because we&#8217;d gone hill walking together and been caught out in a snow storm an eventually found shelter in some exceptionally well-appointed bothy that just so happened to have only one bed and we had got in together to keep warm; nothing like that. We were fucking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/technorati_small.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"15\" alt=\"Technorati\"\/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Reading\" title=\"Reading\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Reading\" rel=\"tag\" >Reading<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Books\" title=\"Books\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Books\" rel=\"tag\" >Books<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"The Crow Road\" title=\"The Crow Road\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/The%20Crow%20Road\" rel=\"tag\" >The Crow Road<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Iain Banks\" title=\"Iain Banks\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Iain%20Banks\" rel=\"tag\" >Iain Banks<\/a><br\/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/wiki_small.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Wikipedia\"\/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Iain Banks\" title=\"Iain Banks\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iain%20Banks\">Iain Banks<\/a><h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/11\/08\/dirty-harry-potter-harry-callahan-and-the-deathly-hallows\/\" title=\"Dirty Harry Potter \/ Harry Callahan and the Deathly Hallows.\">Dirty Harry Potter \/ Harry Callahan and the Deathly Hallows.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/14\/the-man-in-black-fled-across-the-desert-and-the-gunslinger-followed\/\" title=\"The man in black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed\">The man in black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/07\/his-dark-materials\/\" title=\"His Dark Materials\">His Dark Materials<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/26\/gods-behaving-badly-tv\/\" title=\"Gods Behaving Badly&#8230; TV\">Gods Behaving Badly&#8230; TV<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/03\/gods-behaving-badly-3\/\" title=\"Gods Behaving Badly\">Gods Behaving Badly<\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading The Crow Road by Iain Banks at the moment. I&#8217;m enjoying it even if I can only manage to read about a chapter a day, due to commitments&#8230; anyway so far my favourite opening paragraphs to a chapter are; Right, now this isn&#8217;t as bad as it sounds, but&#8230; I was in bed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/27\/the-crow-road\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Crow Road&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[229,226],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reading","tag-books","tag-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwn4r-54","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}