{"id":139817,"date":"2015-08-23T20:17:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T20:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/23\/the-strangest-sea-reading-classic-books\/"},"modified":"2015-08-23T20:17:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T20:17:10","slug":"the-strangest-sea-reading-classic-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/23\/the-strangest-sea-reading-classic-books\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/the-strangest-sea.tumblr.com\/post\/120028108555\" target=\"_blank\">the-strangest-sea<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>reading classic books becomes 100% better if you look for the hilarious little moments. like. i just finished les mis a few days ago and? it\u2019s absolutely just hilarious?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>that time where victor hugo was just like\u00a0\u201cwrapping marius\u2019 bandages was the LITERAL WORST because they hadn\u2019t invented adhesive tape yet, wow sucks for them\u201d<\/li>\n<li>valjean breaking into people\u2019s houses to give them money<\/li>\n<li>that part where everyone sees valjean collecting his money from the woods and just assume he\u2019s the devil<\/li>\n<li>the chapter title\u00a0\u201cmarius becomes real enough to give cosette his address\u201d<\/li>\n<li>the fact that during that chapter, cosette is like\u00a0\u201cmarius, come to england with me!\u201d and marius is like\u00a0\u201cbuT I\u2019M POOR AND ALL MY CLOTHES ARE SHABBY AND I OWE COURFEYRAC MONEY AND I CAN\u2019T AFFORD A PASSPORT\u201d so he goes and stands with his head against a tree for two hours while cosette sits next to him and cries<\/li>\n<li>and then he doesn\u2019t just tell cosette his address. no, he <i>chips it into the wall using a knife<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>that time where valjean accidentally broke into a convent, then had to break <i>out<\/i>\u00a0of the convent, and in doing so, went via coffin because a nun had died and they secretly buried her in the convent but had to tell the authorities that they were <i>totally<\/i>\u00a0burying her in the graveyard. totally. definitely not under the altar.<\/li>\n<li>then he almost got buried alive because fauchelevent\u2019s bud the gravedigger just had to go and <i>die<\/i>\u00a0and this new guy was all up-tight and like\u00a0\u201cnoooo, i can\u2019t go get a drink, i must bury this coffin\u201d<\/li>\n<li>also the chapter title\u00a0\u201cdeposit your money in some forest rather than with some notary\u201d a.k.a. that time that valjean just casually made 600,000 francs and then just buried it in a forest for ten years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the-strangest-sea: reading classic books becomes 100% better if you look for the hilarious little moments. like. i just finished les mis a few days ago and? it\u2019s absolutely just hilarious? that time where victor hugo was just like\u00a0\u201cwrapping marius\u2019 bandages was the LITERAL WORST because they hadn\u2019t invented adhesive tape yet, wow sucks for them\u201d &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/23\/the-strangest-sea-reading-classic-books\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[15431,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}