{"id":1398782,"date":"2017-07-01T16:14:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T20:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1398782"},"modified":"2017-11-16T16:13:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T21:13:13","slug":"blogging-animal-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/blogging-animal-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging <i>Animal Farm<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/bloggingtheclassicsanimalfarmsparknotes_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>HERE&#8217;S THE SITUATION: Last month, \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2017\/06\/16\/sparknotes-is-here-to-save-summer-reading-vote-for-your-fave-book-well-blog-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">we asked you to vote on what book \u00a0<\/a>you&#8217;d like us to blog this summer in order to make your required reading assignment (and your life) exponentially \u00a0less awful. \u00a0Well, the people have spoken, and because this is not (YET) a terrifying, metaphorical farm full of vicious, sentient, Communist animals who brutally suppress the voice of the electorate, we have listened\u2014and thus are bringing you<em><strong> \u00a0Blogging Animal Farm<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0(the latest \u00a0entry in our beloved \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2017\/02\/23\/blogging-the-classics-index-page\">Blogging the Classics<\/a> \u00a0series). Every week, we&#8217;ll be re-capping George &#8220;G-Eazy&#8221; Orwell&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/lit\/animalfarm\/\" target=\"_blank\"> \u00a0anti-fascism dairy-based parable<\/a>\u2014so if you&#8217;re interested in the rise of autocrats, communist state-building, and\/or heifers, then take my hand, and off we&#8217;ll skip to \u00a0Manor Farm.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2017\/07\/11\/blogging-animal-farm-part-1\" target=\"_blank\">Chapters 1 &amp; 2<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2017\/07\/24\/blogging-animal-farm-part-2\" target=\"_blank\">Chapters 3 &amp; 4<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2017\/10\/03\/blogging-animal-farm-part-3\" target=\"_blank\">Chapters 5 &amp; 6<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2017\/10\/18\/blogging-animal-farm-part-4\" target=\"_blank\">Chapters 7 &amp; 8<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2017\/10\/25\/blogging-animal-farm-part-5\" target=\"_blank\">Chapter 9<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2017\/11\/03\/blogging-animal-farm-the-finale\" target=\"_blank\">The Finale<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HERE&#8217;S THE SITUATION: Last month, \u00a0we asked you to vote on what book \u00a0you&#8217;d like us to blog this summer in order to make your required reading assignment (and your life) exponentially \u00a0less awful. \u00a0Well,   <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":375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[23991,395,3346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398782"}],"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\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}