{"id":1395036,"date":"2020-01-10T14:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T19:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1395036"},"modified":"2020-01-10T13:57:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T18:57:52","slug":"7-fictional-characters-whose-names-give-away-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/7-fictional-characters-whose-names-give-away-the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Fictional Characters Whose Names Give Away the Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/dec6charsspoiledbytheirnames1_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My parents gave me my name for no reason other than they heard it somewhere and said, &#8220;Yep, that&#8217;ll do.&#8221; But if you&#8217;re a fictional character, there&#8217;s a good chance your name is so symbolic and meaningful&nbsp;it may as well be Remus McSecretWerewolf. (It&#8217;s also entirely possible that your name is boring and insignificant, but who&#8217;s writing articles about those?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look, I&#8217;m not saying I took one look at the names on this list&nbsp;and was able to correctly predict the rest of the plot. I&#8217;m just saying that I <em>could<\/em> have done, if I possessed so much as an ounce of critical thought and didn&#8217;t just sit back and let books happen to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My parents gave me my name for no reason other than they heard it somewhere and said, &#8220;Yep, that&#8217;ll do.&#8221; But if you&#8217;re a fictional character, there&#8217;s a good chance your name is so symbolic   <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":[438,628,32,25017,3673,2344,756,16352,248,14766,1250],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395036"}],"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=1395036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442269,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395036\/revisions\/1442269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}