{"id":1441269,"date":"2019-10-15T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1441269"},"modified":"2019-10-14T15:47:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T19:47:45","slug":"the-great-gatsby-summed-up-in-pop-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/the-great-gatsby-summed-up-in-pop-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>The Great Gatsby<\/i>, Summed Up in Pop Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/101519gatsbypopsongsMAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Great Gatsby<\/em> is a fine story, but it would be even better if it were told in the form of song lyrics. Am I right, or am I right?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sure, the prose is elegant. The themes? Timeless. The characters? So complicated! Still, it&#8217;s missing something, and that something is Adele lyrics. Here, for your enjoyment and mine, is everything that happens in <em>The Great Gatsby<\/em> as described in popular songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Gatsby is a fine story, but it would be even better if it were told in the form of song lyrics. Am I right, or am I right?&nbsp; Sure, the prose is elegant.   <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":[438,628,2335,7064,25017,3804,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441269"}],"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=1441269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441290,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441269\/revisions\/1441290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}