{"id":1397097,"date":"2017-04-14T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1397097"},"modified":"2017-04-13T15:47:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T19:47:08","slug":"great-american-novels-as-told-by-john-mayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/great-american-novels-as-told-by-john-mayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Great American Novels as Told by John Mayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/johnmayer_greatamericannovel_LargeWide.jpg \" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/>If I had to sum up the American literature tradition, I would probably do so as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A man stands against an outsized landscape, symbolizing the cult of the individual <i>something something<\/i>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And who embodies this better than fallible everyman poet John Mayer, man in a cowboy hat and patchwork poncho, plus author of the best bits of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/23\/arts\/music\/john-mayer-search-for-everything-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\">this interview<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>It is only natural, then, to attempt to view some of the seminal classics of American literature through the lens of Katy Perry&#8217;s ex, John Mayer.<\/p>\n<p>Onward, paper dolls!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I had to sum up the American literature tradition, I would probably do so as follows: A man stands against an outsized landscape, symbolizing the cult of the individual something something. And who embodies   <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":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[23730,14610,3329,3052,497,23732,23731,7381,6504,23727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397097"}],"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\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}