{"id":1401640,"date":"2024-03-12T09:58:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T13:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1401640"},"modified":"2024-03-12T09:58:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T13:58:43","slug":"julius-caesar-as-told-in-a-series-of-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/julius-caesar-as-told-in-a-series-of-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Julius Caesar<\/i> As Told in a Series of Texts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/mar15juliuscaesartextsMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Julius Caesar died surrounded by loved ones, which is, I think, how most of us would want to go out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay, so circumstances were a little less than ideal because his loved ones were stabbing him, but at least his funeral was cool. (If my funeral doesn&#8217;t involve people literally rioting in my name, then my life was wasted.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>William Shakespeare got wind of this tragic moment in history and, as with most tragic moments in history, decided, \u201cYou know what? I bet I could make a pretty sweet play about this.\u201d So he did. What resulted was a five-act tale full of dramatic irony, murder, and people running through the streets of Rome wearing nothing but goatskin loincloths. And if that last sentence didn&#8217;t convince you to give it a shot, maybe condensing the whole play into text messages will do the trick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julius Caesar died surrounded by loved ones, which is, I think, how most of us would want to go out. Okay, so circumstances were a little less than ideal because his loved ones were stabbing   <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":[628,17430,6506,25017,248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401640"}],"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=1401640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442808,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401640\/revisions\/1442808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}