This kind of random, but here’s a meme I ran across somewhere in my blog-wanderings today that looked kind of fun. First up, the obligatory description of The Rules:<\/p>\n
Let’s proceed, shall we?<\/p>\n
The German army had to abandon most of its trucks and other vehicles and revert to being a horse-drawn army.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For the airmen, what mattered most was the cutbacks the Luftwaffe<\/em> was forced to adopt, especially in its training period for pilots, which was reduced to a few insufficient days. Further, along with a severe shortage of good pilots, morale in the Luftwaffe<\/em> was declining or becoming almost nonexistent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And there you go. Exciting, eh?<\/p>\n For the final step, I’m not crazy about tagging other people, as that implies an obligation that I don’t think anyone should have to feel. I’ll go ahead and name some folks I’m pretty sure will have a book handy, but nobody feel like you have to do this if you don’t want to, okay?<\/p>\n The names are:<\/p>\n Thanks for playing. That is, if you choose to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This kind of random, but here’s a meme I ran across somewhere in my blog-wanderings today that looked kind of fun. First up, the obligatory description of The Rules: Pick up the nearest book ( of at least 123 pages). Open the book to page 123. Find the fifth sentence. Post the next three sentences. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memes-and-quizzes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAs it happens, the two books that are closest to me are not very well suited to this exercise — Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary<\/em> doesn’t even have<\/em> sentences in the traditional sense, and the Chicago Manual of Style<\/em>, while fully sentenced, isn’t terribly interesting. So I reached into my personal bag and brought out the book I’m currently reading on the train during my commutes: The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45<\/em> by Stephen E. Ambrose. Turning to page 123…<\/p>\n\n