{"id":1448488,"date":"2021-11-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=1448488"},"modified":"2021-11-08T11:13:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T16:13:23","slug":"pick-5-books-and-well-tell-you-what-you-should-watch-on-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/pick-5-books-and-well-tell-you-what-you-should-watch-on-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick 5 Books and We&#8217;ll Tell You What You Should Watch on Netflix"},"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\/2021\/11\/netflixpick5booksquiz115.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1448490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/netflixpick5booksquiz115.jpg 701w, https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/netflixpick5booksquiz115-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Like most people, I spend way too much time on my couch, up to my eyeballs&nbsp;in Doritos and yelling \u201cWOULDN&#8217;T YOU LIKE TO KNOW\u201d whenever Netflix has the gall to ask if I&#8217;m \u201cstill watching.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m always on the hunt for a new show, especially when I&#8217;ve just made dinner and I&#8217;m scrolling through my queue looking for something to watch in a race against time. But what I really want\u2014nay, what I <em>need<\/em>\u2014is for someone to straight-up <em>tell me<\/em> what to watch. Not Netflix. Netflix doesn&#8217;t know me. I share an account with my partner, and the algorithm doesn&#8217;t know what to make of us. It&#8217;s chaos in there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So! Since nothing says more about a person than the books on their shelf, we&#8217;ll be using that to curate a recommendation for you personally. But be quick about it! Your food&#8217;s getting cold! Go, go, go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most people, I spend way too much time on my couch, up to my eyeballs&nbsp;in Doritos and yelling \u201cWOULDN&#8217;T YOU LIKE TO KNOW\u201d whenever Netflix has the gall to ask if I&#8217;m \u201cstill watching.\u201d   <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":[25221,25017,7681,25236,1653],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448488"}],"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=1448488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448492,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448488\/revisions\/1448492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1448488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1448488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1448488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}