{"id":1417755,"date":"2019-05-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1417755"},"modified":"2019-05-01T10:27:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T14:27:06","slug":"classic-literature-explained-in-venn-diagrams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/classic-literature-explained-in-venn-diagrams\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Literature, Explained in Venn Diagrams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/5119venndiagramsMAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I love a good Venn diagram. This isn&#8217;t surprising; I&#8217;m a visual learner. Force me to read a book about the Battle of Waterloo and <em>maybe<\/em> I&#8217;ll remember some of it, but send me back in time with nothing but a musket, a warm coat, and a can-do attitude and you bet I&#8217;ll remember everything I see that day (if I live to tell the tale).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, literature is just chock full of overlapping themes and ideas. Knowing about them wouldn&#8217;t go amiss. And since we can&#8217;t send you back in time to fight about it, here&#8217;s the next-best thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love a good Venn diagram. This isn&#8217;t surprising; I&#8217;m a visual learner. Force me to read a book about the Battle of Waterloo and maybe I&#8217;ll remember some of it, but send me back   <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":[438,628,24493,2335,1356,25017,756,248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417755"}],"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=1417755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}