{"id":1401980,"date":"2018-04-17T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1401980"},"modified":"2021-03-31T16:34:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T20:34:26","slug":"quiz-is-this-a-beyonce-lyric-or-a-quote-from-the-great-gatsby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/quiz-is-this-a-beyonce-lyric-or-a-quote-from-the-great-gatsby\/","title":{"rendered":"QUIZ: Is This a Beyonc\u00c3\u00a9 Lyric or a Quote from <i>The Great Gatsby<\/i>?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/apr17beyonceortgg2_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Picture a self-made \u00a0billionaire from humble origins \u00a0who plucked themselves from obscurity to become an illustrious, borderline mythical figure in our \u00a0cultural zeitgeist. Am I talking about Beyonc\u00e9 Knowles, or Jay Gatsby? \u00a0Okay, I&#8217;m not saying Beyonc\u00e9 is a twenty-first century Gatsby (Gatsby WISHES), but I <em>am<\/em> saying I have no idea where one ends and the other begins.<\/p>\n<p>(Just kidding. Beyonc\u00e9 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2018\/04\/beyonces-coachella-performance-was-an-instant-classic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">just invented Coachella<\/a> and Gatsby is not only fictional but also dead. It&#8217;s pretty clear who&#8217;s the superior being.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, can you tell their works apart?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture a self-made \u00a0billionaire from humble origins \u00a0who plucked themselves from obscurity to become an illustrious, borderline mythical figure in our \u00a0cultural zeitgeist. Am I talking about Beyonc\u00e9 Knowles, or Jay Gatsby? \u00a0Okay, I&#8217;m not   <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":[278,25016],"tags":[438,628,2335,6820,7064,24565,24646,24645,1653,20770,630,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401980"}],"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=1401980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446817,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401980\/revisions\/1446817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}