{"id":1396256,"date":"2022-06-28T12:30:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T16:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1396256"},"modified":"2022-06-28T12:30:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T16:30:17","slug":"romeo-and-juliet-as-told-in-a-series-of-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/romeo-and-juliet-as-told-in-a-series-of-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em> As Told in a Series of Texts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/romeojuliettextnewmain_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If we&#8217;re being honest here, <em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em> is a bit of an excessive read considering the entire plot can be boiled down to &#8220;Boy and girl fall in love, six people die, it&#8217;s a wild ride from start to finish.&#8221; The play may be a masterpiece of poetic dramatic structure and one of the greatest love stories ever told, but it&#8217;s also more than five pages long, and who has that kind of time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it&#8217;s for this reason and this reason alone that I decided to condense the whole haunting tale of love and loss into a bunch of texts. (And don&#8217;t you dare suggest it was because I was bored on a Saturday night. That doesn&#8217;t sound like me at all.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we&#8217;re being honest here, Romeo and Juliet is a bit of an excessive read considering the entire plot can be boiled down to &#8220;Boy and girl fall in love, six people die, it&#8217;s a   <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":[628,2335,25017,171,248,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396256"}],"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=1396256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445963,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396256\/revisions\/1445963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}