{"id":1403570,"date":"2019-10-22T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1403570"},"modified":"2019-10-18T16:26:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T20:26:23","slug":"frankenstein-as-told-in-a-series-of-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/frankenstein-as-told-in-a-series-of-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Frankenstein<\/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\/frankensteinastoldintextsMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s October, which means the days are getting shorter, the air is becoming brisk, and everyone&#8217;s teacher is assigning them twelve chapters of <em>Frankenstein<\/em> by Monday. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Frankenstein<\/em> is a good book. Yes, I&#8217;ll say it. I&#8217;ll even say it again, with an adverb: <em>Frankenstein<\/em> is a VERY good book. Yet it is one of those very good books that somehow manages to be both short and long at the same time. Maybe it&#8217;s because it was written in the 1800s. Maybe it&#8217;s because Victor spends a lot of the story napping. Whatever the reason, I feel like Mary Shelley could have spiced things up with a text message or two every once in a while. She invented science fiction as a teenager, for God&#8217;s sake. There&#8217;s no reason she couldn&#8217;t ALSO have invented the iPhone fully two hundred years before the technology was even available just so she could put it in her book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, here is <em>Frankenstein<\/em> as told in a series of texts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s October, which means the days are getting shorter, the air is becoming brisk, and everyone&#8217;s teacher is assigning them twelve chapters of Frankenstein by Monday. \u00a0 Frankenstein is a good book. Yes, I&#8217;ll say   <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":[438,628,24895,2335,1763,17430,8983,25017],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403570"}],"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=1403570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441388,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403570\/revisions\/1441388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}