{"id":1389072,"date":"2016-05-04T11:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1389072"},"modified":"2016-04-29T10:06:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T14:06:10","slug":"the-coolest-moms-in-fiction-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/the-coolest-moms-in-fiction-ranked\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coolest Moms in Fiction, Ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/MomsSSCover_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Moms rarely get their due in fiction: they typically serve as the vessel that <a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2015\/05\/07\/the-most-ya-mom-things-that-could-possibly-be-uttered\" target=\"_blank\">delivers the Chosen One<\/a> and then crumbles into dust like a discarded silkworm cocoon. Take Lily Potter: without her [accidentally magical] sacrifice, there would be NO <i>HARRY POTTER<\/i> SERIES. Seriously. <i>Harry Potter<\/i> would not exist in your life. But all Lily gets out of it is a couple of GIFs in some <a href=\"http:\/\/vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net\/glee\/images\/6\/60\/Lily-and-James-with-baby-harry-lily-and-james-potter-25980478-500-291.gif\/revision\/latest?cb=20140729024445\" target=\"_blank\">dusty photo frames<\/a> and to serve as the object of affection for the emo-est professor at Hogwarts. Moms deserve better!<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Mother&#8217;s Day, we are counting down our favorite literary mama bears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moms rarely get their due in fiction: they typically serve as the vessel that delivers the Chosen One and then crumbles into dust like a discarded silkworm cocoon. Take Lily Potter: without her [accidentally magical]   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,9],"tags":[22038,32,22039,22037,17902,963,22036,1924,21187,6236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389072"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}