{"id":1395942,"date":"2020-02-17T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1395942"},"modified":"2022-09-20T11:10:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T15:10:46","slug":"the-great-gatsby-as-told-in-a-series-of-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/the-great-gatsby-as-told-in-a-series-of-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>The Great Gatsby<\/em> As Told in a Series of Texts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/feb6ifgatsbytextMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\"><\/p>\n<p><em>The Great Gatsby<\/em> has it all\u2014romance, jazz, general disillusionment with the American Dream. What it doesn&#8217;t have is texting, and I think that&#8217;s a real shame. (I just feel like Tom Buchanan would&#8217;ve been an emoji man, and I hate that we&#8217;ll never know for sure.) The problem is that F. Scott Fitzgerald didn&#8217;t have sense enough to be writing this book in the twenty-first century, but that&#8217;s okay. We&#8217;ve got his back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Gatsby has it all\u2014romance, jazz, general disillusionment with the American Dream. What it doesn&#8217;t have is texting, and I think that&#8217;s a real shame. (I just feel like Tom Buchanan would&#8217;ve been an   <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":[7],"tags":[438,628,2335,7064,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395942"}],"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=1395942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442630,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395942\/revisions\/1442630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}