{"id":1397895,"date":"2017-06-01T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1397895"},"modified":"2019-02-08T11:31:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T16:31:22","slug":"classic-novels-summed-up-by-someone-who-has-never-read-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/classic-novels-summed-up-by-someone-who-has-never-read-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Novels Summed Up By Someone Who Has Never Read Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/june1novelssummedupMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite certain grandiose and easily disprovable claims I sometimes make on first dates, no one has yet managed to read every book in the world. There are simply not enough hours in the day, and that&#8217;s fine. It just means we all have gaps in our literary knowledge. Here are a few \u00a0classic novels, plays, and essays as described by someone who has never read them but WILL EVENTUALLY GET AROUND TO IT, OKAY? \u00a0IT&#8217;S ON MY LIST, I SWEAR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite certain grandiose and easily disprovable claims I sometimes make on first dates, no one has yet managed to read every book in the world. There are simply not enough hours in the day, and   <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":[25018,7],"tags":[438,628,2335,666,24370,171,1764,23323],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397895"}],"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=1397895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}