{"id":1419401,"date":"2019-09-11T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1419401"},"modified":"2019-09-10T11:16:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T15:16:11","slug":"all-the-books-on-your-english-syllabus-summed-up-in-pop-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/all-the-books-on-your-english-syllabus-summed-up-in-pop-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"All the Books on Your English Syllabus, Summed Up in Pop Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/71219originaltitlesMAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As you suspected, you&#8217;re not the only person in the entire universe who has no idea what classic novels are trying to communicate to you. And quite frankly, you&#8217;re tired of it. You just want something to make sense. ANYTHING!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s where we come in. All you need is a basic knowledge of pop songs, and the key to understanding the elusive metaphors in classics will be yours. At the very least, you&#8217;ll stop blanking out whenever your teacher asks you about stuff like symbolism and themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you suspected, you&#8217;re not the only person in the entire universe who has no idea what classic novels are trying to communicate to you. And quite frankly, you&#8217;re tired of it. You just want   <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":[25018,7],"tags":[438,628,1763,1105,524,1055,25017,756,171,248,6787,694,1764,2056,24595],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419401"}],"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=1419401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419417,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419401\/revisions\/1419417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}