{"id":1407281,"date":"2019-03-05T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1407281"},"modified":"2019-03-08T13:29:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T18:29:34","slug":"what-the-characters-from-the-great-gatsby-would-be-watching-on-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/what-the-characters-from-the-great-gatsby-would-be-watching-on-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Characters from <i>The Great Gatsby<\/i> Would Be Watching on Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1407283\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/netflixdaisybuchananMAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/netflixdaisybuchananMAIN.jpg 701w, https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/netflixdaisybuchananMAIN-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em>The Great Gatsby<\/em> is a tragic story in which lots of rich people make terrible decisions, and I firmly believe every bad thing that happens over the course of the story is avoidable\u2014or it would be, if everyone had Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>See, <i>I<\/i> could be out there throwing wild parties every Saturday and falling in love with other people&#8217;s wives, but I&#8217;m not. Do you know what I&#8217;m doing instead? Watching John Mulaney on Netflix is what. I simply don&#8217;t have TIME to be getting murdered in a pool when Netflix is putting out new seasons of <em>Nailed It!<\/em> faster than I can watch them, and the only reason I&#8217;m not currently running over innocent bystanders with my car while the American Dream shatters before my very eyes is because I need to binge-watch <i>The Umbrella Academy<\/i> before somebody spoils it for me.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe Netflix would have solved everyone&#8217;s problems. Or maybe it wouldn&#8217;t have done anything of the sort. Either way, here&#8217;s what the characters of <em>The Great Gatsby<\/em> would be watching on Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Gatsby is a tragic story in which lots of rich people make terrible decisions, and I firmly believe every bad thing that happens over the course of the story is avoidable\u2014or it would   <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":[438,628,2335,7064,7681,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407281"}],"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=1407281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}