{"id":1394224,"date":"2020-09-18T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1394224"},"modified":"2020-09-17T18:33:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T22:33:20","slug":"the-7-most-wtf-moments-in-classic-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/the-7-most-wtf-moments-in-classic-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"7 of the Most WTF Moments in Classic Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/wtfmomentsinlit91720MAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Being really old and vaguely important&#8221; is pretty much the defining trait of all classic literature. This combined with the fact that your teacher is forcing you to read it under threat of death (or just a zero on Friday&#8217;s quiz, whatever) means that studying books like <em>Wuthering Heights<\/em> is literally no one&#8217;s favorite thing to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it&#8217;s not all just tedious symbolism and old-timey dialogue. Sometimes, things take a turn for the weird, even in the classroom favorites of the American education system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Being really old and vaguely important&#8221; is pretty much the defining trait of all classic literature. This combined with the fact that your teacher is forcing you to read it under threat of death (or   <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":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[628,25181,25017,248,25180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394224"}],"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\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394224"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445154,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394224\/revisions\/1445154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}