{"id":1391614,"date":"2016-07-25T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T16:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1391614"},"modified":"2021-04-04T19:37:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T23:37:32","slug":"whos-your-shakespearean-foil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/whos-your-shakespearean-foil\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s Your Shakespearean Foil?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/Foil_Cover_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A foil in literature is usually a character whose traits serve to highlight those of another. It&#8217;s not necessarily the villain to the story&#8217;s hero; more like the peanut butter to their jelly\u2014Don Quixote has a foil in Sancho; Holmes and Watson are foils to each other. Take the quiz below to&nbsp;discover&nbsp;who be a Shakespeare foil to thee!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A foil in literature is usually a character whose traits serve to highlight those of another. It&#8217;s not necessarily the villain to the story&#8217;s hero; more like the peanut butter to their jelly\u2014Don Quixote has   <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":375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[278,25016],"tags":[524,22664,8058,2344,1653,171,248,20770,8458],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391614"}],"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\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446979,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391614\/revisions\/1446979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}