{"id":1396062,"date":"2020-04-13T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1396062"},"modified":"2020-04-14T10:54:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T14:54:59","slug":"literary-characters-ranked-by-thirsty-ness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/literary-characters-ranked-by-thirsty-ness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thirstiest Literary Characters, RANKED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/peetathirstymellark_LargeWide.jpg\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\"><\/p>\n<p>If you have zero cool, lots of enthusiasm, a massive crush on someone who&nbsp;maybe isn&#8217;t aware of your existence, and a history of sending texts like, &#8220;I NOTICED THAT YOU LIKE BURRITOS I LIKE BURRITOS TOO MAYBE DO YOU WANT TO BE MY BOYFRIEND AND KISS ME ON MY MOUTH,&#8221; there&#8217;s a good chance that you&#8217;re suffering from <a href=\"http:\/\/i0.kym-cdn.com\/photos\/images\/original\/000\/963\/848\/53f.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">THE THIRST.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though we can&#8217;t cure your thirst-ness (we&#8217;re writers, dammit, not miracle-workers), we can at least reassure you that you&#8217;re in good company: literature is packed with characters who go for their crushes in big ways, and usually get rejected\/die alone\/sprint toward the neartest exit, never to be heard from again.<\/p>\n<div>From the ever-so-slightly desperate to the mad-dehydrated-thirsty, we&#8217;ve got your thirstiest literary characters right here.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have zero cool, lots of enthusiasm, a massive crush on someone who&nbsp;maybe isn&#8217;t aware of your existence, and a history of sending texts like, &#8220;I NOTICED THAT YOU LIKE BURRITOS I LIKE BURRITOS   <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":433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[4700,32,756,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396062"}],"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\/433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443384,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396062\/revisions\/1443384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}