{"id":1443910,"date":"2024-05-29T15:32:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T19:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=1443910"},"modified":"2024-05-29T15:32:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T19:32:14","slug":"the-5-most-overrated-classic-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/the-5-most-overrated-classic-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 Most Overrated Classic Novels of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/chap4gatspic_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1449337\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a really cool job that involves reading books and eating potato chips in massive quantities, not unlike a blue whale swimming through a school of krill with its mouth open. I&#8217;m kidding. That first part is totally accurate; the second part is just something I do on my own time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I get to read a lot of classic novels. And you know what? They&#8217;re not all winners. Sure they&#8217;re GOOD, as books go, but are they \u201clet&#8217;s put it on the syllabus for the next two hundred years and never look back\u201d good? Absolutely not! Very few books are!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are, to my mind, the most overrated classic novels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a really cool job that involves reading books and eating potato chips in massive quantities, not unlike a blue whale swimming through a school of krill with its mouth open. I&#8217;m kidding. 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":[628,25017,25140,694,1387],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443910"}],"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=1443910"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449629,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443910\/revisions\/1449629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}