{"id":1407252,"date":"2019-09-17T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1407252"},"modified":"2019-10-02T16:28:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T20:28:02","slug":"college-life-as-described-in-les-miserables-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/college-life-as-described-in-les-miserables-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"College Life As Described in <i>Les Mis\u00c3\u00a9rables<\/i> Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1407253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lesmiscollegelifeMAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lesmiscollegelifeMAIN.jpg 701w, https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lesmiscollegelifeMAIN-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>College has a lot in common with the musical <em>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em>. In both, unhappy people who have no money learn harsh lessons about life. In fact, if you are currently broke, miserable, and struggling to make sense of class conflict, social justice, and the human condition, there&#8217;s a good chance you are either a college student or a character from <em>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em>. (Unless of course you&#8217;re both, in which case you&#8217;re probably Marius.)<\/p>\n<p>The point is, these two things are really similar. That&#8217;s why I, a college student, will be describing college life for anyone who&#8217;s curious\u2014and I&#8217;ll be doing it in <em>Les Mis<\/em> lyrics. Ready? Let&#8217;s go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College has a lot in common with the musical Les Mis\u00e9rables. In both, unhappy people who have no money learn harsh lessons about life. In fact, if you are currently broke, miserable, and struggling to   <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":485,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25018,5],"tags":[438,2335,124,23890,3017,11258,6846,6190,5790,11492,25017,538,23323],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407252"}],"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\/485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407252"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441178,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407252\/revisions\/1441178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}