{"id":1396164,"date":"2019-06-17T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1396164"},"modified":"2019-06-18T14:06:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T18:06:53","slug":"every-literary-genre-summed-up-in-a-single-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/every-literary-genre-summed-up-in-a-single-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Literary Genre Summed Up in a Single Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/feb16everylitgenreMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\"><\/p>\n<p>Back in the olden days, there were only like three types of book: 1) epic poetry, 2) Latin prose, and 3) ancient Greek plays where the gods were constantly punishing people for things like &#8220;stealing stuff&#8221; and &#8220;being prideful one time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, we&#8217;ve accumulated more and more literary genres, which is a good thing; it means I can kick down the door of my nearest Barnes &amp; Noble and go straight to the &#8220;soft cyberpunk grimoire&#8221; section, no muss, no fuss. But it also means there are now so many genres it can be hard to keep track of them all. If you find yourself struggling to keep up, here&#8217;s every literary genre (well, most of them, anyway), summed up in a single (tongue-in-cheek) sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the olden days, there were only like three types of book: 1) epic poetry, 2) Latin prose, and 3) ancient Greek plays where the gods were constantly punishing people for things like &#8220;stealing   <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":[25018,7],"tags":[438,628,2335,5161,5316,23564,24370],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396164"}],"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=1396164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}