{"id":1396051,"date":"2020-02-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1396051"},"modified":"2020-02-13T10:01:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T15:01:07","slug":"if-literatures-biggest-romantics-could-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/if-literatures-biggest-romantics-could-text\/","title":{"rendered":"If Literature&#8217;s Biggest Romantics Could Text"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/feb13literaryromanticstextingMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nobody is good at texting. I myself have sent thousands of texts over the course of my life, and all of them were a mistake. Mostly it&#8217;s a lot of people saying \u201cHey, are you busy?\u201d and me texting back \u201cSorry, just saw this!\u201d three years later. (I didn&#8217;t want to seem overeager. You understand.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And when you throw flirting and crushes into the mix? Forget about it. Now, if there was anyone who could possibly pull this off, you&#8217;d <em>think<\/em> it would fictional romantics. You know\u2014those paragons of charm and perfection designed to make real-life men look like human-shaped garbage in a half-zipped pullover. Realistically, however, literature&#8217;s most prolific romantic heroes would likely be texting catastrophes. For example\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody is good at texting. I myself have sent thousands of texts over the course of my life, and all of them were a mistake. Mostly it&#8217;s a lot of people saying \u201cHey, are you   <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":[628,2335,23549,32,17430,1055,5790,23162,25017,756,171,694,1764,389],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396051"}],"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=1396051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442610,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396051\/revisions\/1442610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}