{"id":1396964,"date":"2021-07-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1396964"},"modified":"2021-07-06T11:40:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T15:40:05","slug":"5-inspiring-literary-quotes-that-arent-actually-all-that-inspiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/5-inspiring-literary-quotes-that-arent-actually-all-that-inspiring\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Famous &#8220;Inspiring&#8221; Quotes That Don&#8217;t Mean What You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/3320inspiringquotesMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As a species, there&#8217;s nothing we love more than slapping cool quotes on Etsy throw pillows. For instance, I don&#8217;t even own a spatula, but I DO own no fewer than seven different pillows that say things like &#8220;NOT ALL THOSE WHO WANDER ARE LOST,&#8221; which is just something that happens when you take a lifelong trash nerd like myself and give her a steady income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But sometimes, we make a big deal out of quotes that aren&#8217;t actually all that inspirational, considering the context in which they were written. Quotes like\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a species, there&#8217;s nothing we love more than slapping cool quotes on Etsy throw pillows. For instance, I don&#8217;t even own a spatula, but I DO own no fewer than seven different pillows that   <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":[628,32,25017,248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396964"}],"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=1396964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442786,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396964\/revisions\/1442786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}