{"id":1392380,"date":"2016-08-12T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1392380"},"modified":"2019-02-11T14:06:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T19:06:27","slug":"the-lord-of-the-flies-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/the-lord-of-the-flies-test\/","title":{"rendered":"The <em>Lord of the Flies<\/em> Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/aug12lotftest_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All right everyone, clear your desks. Don&#8217;t look at me like that, you knew this was coming.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been lecturing about tropical werewolves and mankind&#8217;s inherent evil \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2016\/07\/18\/blogging-the-classics-index-page\" target=\"_blank\">for weeks now<\/a>\u2014not because I like hearing the sound of my own voice, which is like the languid, oozing drawl of Alan Rickman combined with the alarming chortle of Jeff Goldblum, but because I want you people to leave my class better than you came. I want you to be able to take on the world and know an impending societal breakdown when you see one. I want you to know how to build a fire and how NOT to wind up being torn apart by a mob of feral children. Does this seem like a reasonable and realistic goal? Yeah? You&#8217;re with me? Good.<\/p>\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s see what you&#8217;ve managed to learn after schlepping through 300 pages of conflict and miscommunication and wildly unsupervised toddler pyromania.<\/p>\n<p>This is not an open-book test. But if you need to go back and read the part <a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2016\/06\/17\/blogging-lord-of-the-flies-part-5-the-one-where-this-whole-thing-got-out-of-hand-really-quickly-jeez\/\" target=\"_blank\">where Ralph suggested not pooping on the food<\/a> and everyone else unanimously just said &#8220;Nah,&#8221; please feel free to do so before you commence quizzing.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All right everyone, clear your desks. Don&#8217;t look at me like that, you knew this was coming. I&#8217;ve been lecturing about tropical werewolves and mankind&#8217;s inherent evil \u00a0for weeks now\u2014not because I like hearing the   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[278,25016],"tags":[615,395,438,22145,666,20770,630,22773,22146],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392380"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}