{"id":1397059,"date":"2019-12-20T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1397059"},"modified":"2019-12-20T16:13:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T21:13:37","slug":"lord-of-the-flies-as-told-in-a-series-of-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/lord-of-the-flies-as-told-in-a-series-of-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Lord of the Flies<\/em>, As Told in a Series of Texts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/newLOTFralphtext_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Lord of the Flies<\/em> is one of those books that harkens back to a simpler (unspecified) time. It was a time when texting didn&#8217;t exist, a time when earnest youths could build a fire, a time when boys could be boys without worrying about things like MORALS or SOCIETY or THE DAWNING REALIZATION THAT EVIL EXISTS IN ALL OF US.<\/p>\n<p>Which is, you know, kind of heavy, so instead of tackling <i>that<\/i>, I&#8217;m going to be summing up the book in a series of dumb text messages. Cool? Cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord of the Flies is one of those books that harkens back to a simpler (unspecified) time. It was a time when texting didn&#8217;t exist, a time when earnest youths could build a fire, 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":[9758,438,628,2335,17430,24602,666,25017,22146],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397059"}],"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=1397059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442060,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397059\/revisions\/1442060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}