{"id":1397387,"date":"2019-11-15T13:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T18:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1397387"},"modified":"2019-11-15T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T23:00:00","slug":"great-american-novels-ranked-from-really-great-actually-to-meh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/great-american-novels-ranked-from-really-great-actually-to-meh\/","title":{"rendered":"Great American Novels, Ranked from &#8220;Pretty Great, Actually&#8221; to &#8220;Meh&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/may11greatamericannovelsMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\"><\/p>\n<p>In the 20th century, everybody and his grandmother was writing the Great American Novel, and the tradition continues still today. Some of these books are&nbsp;enjoyable. Others, however, appear to have been&nbsp;written by people with a rather dubious definition of the word &#8220;great.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 20th century, everybody and his grandmother was writing the Great American Novel, and the tradition continues still today. Some of these books are&nbsp;enjoyable. Others, however, appear to have been&nbsp;written by people with 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":[438,628,5161,3329,25017,767,6504,694,643,23796,1387],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397387"}],"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=1397387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441737,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397387\/revisions\/1441737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}