{"id":1401346,"date":"2018-02-14T11:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1401346"},"modified":"2019-02-08T11:30:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T16:30:30","slug":"pride-and-prejudice-as-told-in-a-series-of-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/pride-and-prejudice-as-told-in-a-series-of-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Pride and Prejudice<\/i> As Told in a Series of Texts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/feb13prideandprejudicetextsMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Pride and Prejudice<\/i> is a 19th-century novel about unmarried people dancing with each other while snobbish aristocrats walk through gardens and make cutting remarks.<\/p>\n<p>If it took place today, there would be markedly less garden-walking, an equal amount of upper-class snobbery, and 100% more texting. You think there&#8217;s even a CHANCE Darcy wouldn&#8217;t be lurking near the snack table at the Netherfield ball pretending to text because he&#8217;s too awkward to talk to people? Please. Here&#8217;s how the men and women of Meryton would have fared with the boon of twenty-first century technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pride and Prejudice is a 19th-century novel about unmarried people dancing with each other while snobbish aristocrats walk through gardens and make cutting remarks. If it took place today, there would be markedly less garden-walking,   <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":[438,628,2335,7396,17430,24602,1393,3326,756,3648,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401346"}],"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=1401346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}