{"id":800,"date":"2025-05-19T17:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T17:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/?p=800"},"modified":"2025-05-20T20:08:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T20:08:37","slug":"oedipus-rex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/oedipus-rex\/","title":{"rendered":"Oedipus Rex"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Title<\/td><td>Oedipus the King<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Author<\/td><td>Sophocles<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Series<\/td><td>The Theban Plays #1<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Ranking<\/td><td>\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Genre<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/tag\/drama\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"472\">Drama<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Links<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/1554.Oedipus_Rex\">Goodreads<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sophocles&#8217; Oedipus Rex has never been surpassed for the raw and terrible power with which its hero struggles to answer the eternal question, &#8220;Who am I?&#8221; The play, a story of a king who acting entirely in ignorance kills his father and marries his mother, unfolds with shattering power; we are helplessly carried along with Oedipus towards the final, horrific truth.<br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/oedipus.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-258\" style=\"width:363px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/oedipus.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/oedipus-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title Oedipus the King Author Sophocles Series The Theban Plays #1 Ranking \u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50 Genre Drama Links Goodreads Sophocles&#8217; Oedipus Rex has never been surpassed for the raw and terrible power with which its hero struggles to answer the eternal question, &#8220;Who am I?&#8221; The play, a story of a king who acting entirely in ignorance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[465],"tags":[479],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-drama"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}