{"id":643,"date":"2017-03-29T13:31:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T11:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http;\/\/matsvederhus.com\/?p=643"},"modified":"2017-03-29T13:31:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T11:31:03","slug":"people-are-adding-and-then-the-murders-began-to-famous-book-openings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matsvederhus.com\/no\/2017\/03\/29\/people-are-adding-and-then-the-murders-began-to-famous-book-openings\/","title":{"rendered":"People are adding &#8220;And then the murders began&#8221; to famous book openings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a rule called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/unclick\/murders-began-books-better\/\">&#8220;Laidlaw&#8217;s rule&#8221;<\/a>, which basically states that any book will be better if the second sentence is &#8220;And then the murders began&#8221;.<br \/>\nPeople have started using this to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/and-murders-began-first-line-book\/\">hillarious effect<\/a>! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Here are some awesome examples:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">One sunny Sunday, the caterpillar was hatched out of a tiny egg. He was very hungry. And then the murders began. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LaidlawsRule?src=hash\">#LaidlawsRule<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elizabeth Meg (@Scranshums) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Scranshums\/status\/837622481271803904\">March 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cI wonder what Piglet is doing,&#8221; thought Pooh. And then the murders began. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZWBA29tjW9\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZWBA29tjW9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Damon Young (@damonayoung) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/damonayoung\/status\/837629371770777600\">March 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mr &amp; Mrs Dursley, of number 4, Privet Drive, were proud to say they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. And then the murders began. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WbbBuyehqU\">https:\/\/t.co\/WbbBuyehqU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kyle Treasure (@KyleTreasure) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KyleTreasure\/status\/837704035121557504\">March 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Once upon a time there were four little rabbits, and their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter. And then the murders began. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XxrP0PrF1c\">https:\/\/t.co\/XxrP0PrF1c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 L.D. Lapinski (@ldlapinski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ldlapinski\/status\/837624953574936577\">March 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a rule called &#8220;Laidlaw&#8217;s rule&#8221;, which basically states that any book will be better if the second sentence is &#8220;And then the murders began&#8221;.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matsvederhus.com\/no\/2017\/03\/29\/people-are-adding-and-then-the-murders-began-to-famous-book-openings\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">People are adding &#8220;And then the murders began&#8221; to famous book openings<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[158,157,111],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-and-then-the-murders-began","tag-laidlaws-rule","tag-writing","entry"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"no","enabled_languages":["en","ru","no"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"ru":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"no":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsvederhus.com\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsvederhus.com\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsvederhus.com\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsvederhus.com\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsvederhus.com\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/matsvederhus.com\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/matsvederhus.com\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsvederhus.com\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsvederhus.com\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsvederhus.com\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}