{"id":5167,"date":"2017-07-30T09:24:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T16:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=5167"},"modified":"2017-07-30T10:57:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T17:57:22","slug":"it-was-a-dark-and-stormy-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/it-was-a-dark-and-stormy-night\/","title":{"rendered":"It Was a Dark and Stormy Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5177\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2769a.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Clifford\u00a0by\u00a0Edward Bulwer-Lytton\" width=\"600\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2769a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2769a-120x70.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2769a-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Paul%20Clifford\">Paul Clifford<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Edward%20Bulwer-Lytton\">Edward Bulwer-Lytton<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, this is <em>that<\/em> quote, the often quoted dark and stormy night quote.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; font-size: 75%;\">Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/lv6u2gRDj2E?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manolo Chr\u00e9tien<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, this is that quote, the often quoted dark and stormy night quote. \u00a0It&#8217;s from Paul Clifford written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.\u00a0<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[1190,636,488,736,1191,604,193,608,459],"class_list":["post-5167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quote-photos","tag-edward-bulwer-lytton","tag-famous-quotes","tag-london-quotes","tag-night-quotes","tag-paul-clifford","tag-rain-quotes","tag-spooky-quotes","tag-storm-quotes","tag-wind-quotes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}