{"id":1442154,"date":"2021-08-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1442154"},"modified":"2021-07-19T09:56:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T13:56:45","slug":"20-literary-twitter-memes-youll-only-understand-if-youve-read-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/20-literary-twitter-memes-youll-only-understand-if-youve-read-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Literary Memes You&#8217;ll Only Understand if You&#8217;ve Read the Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/172020littwittermemesMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Like most people who spend all their time on the Internet, scrolling through their various newsfeeds and dashboards in a desperate attempt to feel something, I love a good meme. It&#8217;s perhaps lucky, then, that someone in an office somewhere made the wholly misguided decision to give me access to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SparkNotes\">the SparkNotes Twitter account<\/a>. Now I turn literary references into memes and inflict them on the good people of Twitter, and nobody can stop me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However! Any unlettered fool can retweet a joke simply to bask in that glorious social capital. It takes a <em>real<\/em> connoisseur of all things literary (or an 11th-grade English student) to actually understand the reference (and feel extremely smug about it).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most people who spend all their time on the Internet, scrolling through their various newsfeeds and dashboards in a desperate attempt to feel something, I love a good meme. It&#8217;s perhaps lucky, then, that   <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":[628,524,5426,25017,756,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442154"}],"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=1442154"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1447749,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442154\/revisions\/1447749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}