{"id":530,"date":"2017-04-30T12:32:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T16:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=530"},"modified":"2017-04-30T12:32:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T16:32:58","slug":"scranton-the-humans-and-the-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/stephen-haram\/scranton-the-humans-and-the-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton, The Humans, and the Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As soon as I saw that the family featured in the Humans hails from Scranton, the Office immediately came to mind. As I continued to read the play, I realized that the two works, The Humans the play and the Office the tv show, have more in common than at first glance. As Brenda mentioned in her post, the Humans focuses on the middle-class struggles troubling the family. The Office features the many branches of a paper company in Scranton, PA, none of which are exactly living luxuriously. Yet both works manage to achieve the similar aim of portraying life at this socioeconomic level, despite coming at it from the disparate sides of comedy and drama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As soon as I saw that the family featured in the Humans hails from Scranton, the Office immediately came to mind. As I continued to read the play, I realized that the two works, The Humans the play and the Office the tv show, have more in common than at first glance. As Brenda mentioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stephen-haram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}