{"id":1446002,"date":"2020-11-12T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=1446002"},"modified":"2021-11-12T10:17:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T15:17:32","slug":"quiz-is-this-a-taylor-swift-lyric-or-a-quote-from-the-great-gatsby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/quiz-is-this-a-taylor-swift-lyric-or-a-quote-from-the-great-gatsby\/","title":{"rendered":"QUIZ: Is This a Taylor Swift Lyric or a Quote from <i>The Great Gatsby<\/i>?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/tswiftgatsbyquizMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Taylor Swift wrote two entire albums in the middle of a global pandemic. I don&#8217;t know what F. Scott Fitzgerald was doing during <em>his<\/em> pandemic (the 1918 Spanish influenza), but I do know what he wasn&#8217;t doing: writing two entire albums.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In particular, Swift&#8217;s second quarantine album, <em>evermore<\/em>, is littered with so many Gatsbyish turns of phrase that you&#8217;d be forgiven for mistaking Swift&#8217;s lyrics for Fitzgerald&#8217;s prose. And if you don&#8217;t believe me, look no further than the song &#8220;happiness,&#8221; in which Swift sings both &#8220;I hope she&#8217;ll be your beautiful fool&#8221; <em>and<\/em> &#8220;All you want from me now is the green light of forgiveness.&#8221; Wake up, people! I&#8217;m about to crack this thing wide open!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So! Can you tell the difference between a Great Gatsby quote and a lyric from Taylor Swift&#8217;s <em>evermore<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift wrote two entire albums in the middle of a global pandemic. I don&#8217;t know what F. Scott Fitzgerald was doing during his pandemic (the 1918 Spanish influenza), but I do know what he   <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":[25017,1653,481,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446002"}],"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=1446002"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446020,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446002\/revisions\/1446020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}