{"id":1445195,"date":"2021-08-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=1445195"},"modified":"2021-08-08T14:15:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T18:15:06","slug":"quiz-is-this-a-lady-gaga-lyric-or-a-great-gatsby-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/quiz-is-this-a-lady-gaga-lyric-or-a-great-gatsby-quote\/","title":{"rendered":"QUIZ: Is This a Lady Gaga Lyric or a <i>Great Gatsby<\/i> Quote?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/greatgatsbyladagaga923204MAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you know F. Scott Fitzgerald&#8217;s award-winning classroom favorite <em>The Great Gatsby<\/em> was almost called <em>Bad Romance<\/em>? Well you shouldn&#8217;t, because it wasn&#8217;t\u2014but that&#8217;s only because F. Scott Fitzgerald was TERRIBLE at naming his novels. (Two actual titles he considered were <em>Among Ash-Heaps and Millionaires<\/em> and <em>The High-Bouncing Lover.<\/em> Thankfully, his editor stepped in.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this tenuous link I&#8217;m trying to forge between <em>The Great Gatsby<\/em>&#8216;s larger themes and Lady Gaga&#8217;s best-selling platinum single isn&#8217;t the only thing the two have in common! Can you tell a Lady Gaga lyric from a <em>Gatsby<\/em> quote?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know F. Scott Fitzgerald&#8217;s award-winning classroom favorite The Great Gatsby was almost called Bad Romance? Well you shouldn&#8217;t, because it wasn&#8217;t\u2014but that&#8217;s only because F. Scott Fitzgerald was TERRIBLE at naming his novels.   <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":[25016],"tags":[2335,1038,25017,1653,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445195"}],"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=1445195"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445237,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445195\/revisions\/1445237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}