{"id":74,"date":"2005-06-01T04:21:42","date_gmt":"2005-06-01T04:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog2\/?p=74"},"modified":"2011-05-03T11:48:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T16:48:57","slug":"romeo-and-juliet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/74\/romeo-and-juliet","title":{"rendered":"Romeo and Juliet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  All the freshman who just finished reading it keep talking about Romeo  and Juliet.&nbsp; I&#8217;m going to tell you what I tell all of them:&nbsp;  I&#8217;m <b>glad<\/b> Romeo died at the end.&nbsp; He deserved it, that jerk.&nbsp; Romeo got Mercutio killed, the <i>one<\/i>  cool character in the play.&nbsp; Mercutio was even a good enough  friend to stand up for Romeo when Tybalt was being a bully, and what  does Romeo do?&nbsp; <i>Lets him die<\/i>.&nbsp; Romeo waits until <i>after<\/i> Mercutio has been killed to avenge him and fight Tybalt.&nbsp; Nice job, jackass; now your best friend is dead <i>and<\/i> you&#8217;ve been banished from your house.&nbsp; What will Juliet think when she finds out she&#8217;s married such a loser?<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  The ending, although agreeable, needs some minor modifications.&nbsp;  For example, after Romeo dies, instead of having Juliet kill herself, I  would have Mercutio come back to life, spit on Romeo&#8217;s grave and lie  with his wife.&nbsp; After that, Mercutio would run around and eat  babies.&nbsp; Damn, that would be wicked; I should do this for a  living.&nbsp; Shakespeare&#8217;s just lucky I wasn&#8217;t alive during his time,  or he&#8217;d be out of a job.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t agree with me?&nbsp; Then don&#8217;t leave a comment; you&#8217;re obviously wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; All the freshman who just finished reading it keep talking about Romeo and Juliet.&nbsp; I&#8217;m going to tell you what I tell all of them:&nbsp; I&#8217;m glad Romeo died at the end.&nbsp; He deserved it, that jerk.&nbsp; Romeo got Mercutio killed, the one cool character in the play.&nbsp; Mercutio was even a good enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}