{"id":1396525,"date":"2017-03-08T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T17:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1396525"},"modified":"2019-02-08T11:32:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T16:32:54","slug":"the-odyssey-as-told-in-a-series-of-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/the-odyssey-as-told-in-a-series-of-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Odyssey<\/em> As Told in a Series of Texts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The<\/i> Odyssey<\/i> is the story of one man’s journey home, and something you’ll almost certainly have to read for school. It’s also a whopping 12,000 lines long. To be fair, at least 8,000 of those are spent describing Odysseus’s sweet, sweet abs and extremely chiseled thighs. But still, 12,000 lines is a lot of lines, and we’re busy people. We don’t have time<\/i> to be reading the long-winded story of some beefcake in ancient Greece.<\/p>\n

That’s why I’ve taken Homer’s entire epic poem and turned it into texts. (If I’m being honest, the thought of the Olympian gods being part of a group text really tickled me, and the idea just took off from there. ENJOY.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Odyssey is the story of one man’s journey home, and something you’ll almost certainly have to read for school. It’s also a whopping 12,000 lines long. To be fair, at least 8,000 of those continue reading<\/span>\n <\/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":[438,628,2335,6502,17430,24602,3648,102,1764],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396525"}],"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=1396525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}