{"id":1400207,"date":"2018-11-07T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1400207"},"modified":"2020-07-09T09:40:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T13:40:24","slug":"the-catcher-in-the-rye-as-told-in-a-series-of-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/the-catcher-in-the-rye-as-told-in-a-series-of-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"If Holden Caulfield Could Text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/nov7catchertextsMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We all have opinions about Holden Caulfield. Is he just some obnoxious rich kid? Is he a lonely teenager who&#8217;s also depressed? The answer is likely closer to \u201cactually he&#8217;s both,\u201d but today I think we should set aside those questions in favor of what are, to my mind, the only questions that matter, and they are \u201cWhat would it be like if Holden Caulfield could text? What would be his most oft-used emoji? Would it be the upside-down smiley face? Probably.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I have been writing about <a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2017\/08\/30\/the-great-gatsby-as-told-in-a-series-of-texts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fictional<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2017\/06\/06\/harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone-as-told-in-a-series-of-texts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">characters<\/a> (and what \u00a0it would be like <a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2017\/05\/25\/how-fictional-characters-would-break-up-with-you-over-text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">if<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2017\/04\/25\/macbeth-as-told-in-a-series-of-texts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2017\/04\/25\/macbeth-as-told-in-a-series-of-texts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">could<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2017\/02\/13\/if-literatures-biggest-romantics-could-text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">text<\/a>) since what feels like the dawn of time. But no book has been requested more than The Catcher in the Rye, no character requested more than Holden Caulfield. I heard the call, my friends, and I answered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all have opinions about Holden Caulfield. Is he just some obnoxious rich kid? Is he a lonely teenager who&#8217;s also depressed? The answer is likely closer to \u201cactually he&#8217;s both,\u201d but today I think   <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":[438,628,2335,6400,17430,2188,1209,3648,102,767],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400207"}],"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=1400207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444367,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400207\/revisions\/1444367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}