{"id":58,"date":"2010-10-12T20:05:09","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T00:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/2010\/10\/12\/a-streetcar-named-desire\/"},"modified":"2010-10-12T20:05:09","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T00:05:09","slug":"a-streetcar-named-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/2010\/10\/12\/a-streetcar-named-desire\/","title":{"rendered":"A Streetcar Named Desire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple meanings of the title, here are a few:\u00a0 1) Literally, Desire is the name of the streetcar route that Blanche takes to get to her sister&#8217;s house.\u00a0 2)\u00a0 Symbolically, Blanche has let desire take over her life, losing her self-control by hopping on &#8220;a streetcar named desire&#8221; and enjoying the ride, though she has no idea where it will take her.\u00a0 3) The fact that it is a streetcar and not a more upscale mode of transportation indicates that even though Blanche pretends to be cultured and rich, she has sunk to poverty and dependence on others because of her desire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple meanings of the title, here are a few:\u00a0 1) Literally, Desire is the name of the streetcar route that Blanche takes to get to her sister&#8217;s house.\u00a0 2)\u00a0 Symbolically, Blanche has let desire take over her life, losing her self-control by hopping on &#8220;a streetcar named desire&#8221; and enjoying the ride, though she has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/2010\/10\/12\/a-streetcar-named-desire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Streetcar Named Desire<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hodge-idea-metaphor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}