{"id":4460,"date":"2015-02-24T13:29:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T18:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=4460"},"modified":"2015-02-24T13:35:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T18:35:17","slug":"raskolnikov-screw-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2015\/02\/24\/raskolnikov-screw-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Raskolnikov: &#8220;SCREW EVERYTHING&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2015\/02\/crime-and-punishment-movie-poster-1951-1020676093.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2015\/02\/crime-and-punishment-movie-poster-1951-1020676093-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"crime-and-punishment-movie-poster-1951-1020676093\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2015\/02\/crime-and-punishment-movie-poster-1951-1020676093-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2015\/02\/crime-and-punishment-movie-poster-1951-1020676093.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a>Look, we&#8217;re readers in the Core. We&#8217;re readers of big books, huge ones, even. But there&#8217;s a certain point when the book goes on too long. We&#8217;ve all been there:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Crime and Punishment<\/em>. Perhaps you&#8217;re thinking, &#8220;maybe I should read that canonical novel!&#8221;<strong> I&#8217;m going to stop you right there<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Emphasis mine.<\/em> Luckily, this is the information age, and the internet is here to rescue you.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. Young man Raskolnikov is losing his mind. See also: extreme angst.<\/p>\n<p>2. So he decides: SCREW EVERYTHING. Then he takes an ax to an old lady and her sister. Granted, the old lady is a swindler, a loan shark and an unsavory sort, and killing her is no biggie. But her sister isn&#8217;t, and he kills her anyway. He&#8217;s a jerk.<\/p>\n<p>3. Then he&#8217;s like OH NO I MURDERED PEOPLE and plunges into a fugue state. Really nice people inexplicably rally around him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/02\/20\/i-read-crime-and-punishment-so.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look, we&#8217;re readers in the Core. We&#8217;re readers of big books, huge ones, even. But there&#8217;s a certain point when the book goes on too long. We&#8217;ve all been there: Crime and Punishment. Perhaps you&#8217;re thinking, &#8220;maybe I should read that canonical novel!&#8221; I&#8217;m going to stop you right there. Emphasis mine. Luckily, this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4460"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4478,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions\/4478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}