{"id":1397801,"date":"2022-02-10T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1397801"},"modified":"2022-02-14T14:56:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T19:56:21","slug":"how-fictional-characters-would-break-up-with-you-over-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/how-fictional-characters-would-break-up-with-you-over-text\/","title":{"rendered":"How Literary Characters Would Break Up With You Over Text"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/51920breakuptextsMAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1448985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/51920breakuptextsMAIN.jpg 701w, https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/51920breakuptextsMAIN-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Break-ups can be tough. One minute you&#8217;re in love, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"the next minute you're returning his letters and he's stabbing your father through a curtain in an ill-conceived attempt to avenge the king (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/shakespeare\/hamlet\/\" target=\"_blank\">the next minute you&#8217;re returning his letters and he&#8217;s stabbing your father through a curtain in an ill-fated attempt to avenge the king<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think we, as a collective society, have come to the conclusion that breaking up with someone over text is typically Not a Good Thing To Do. But sometimes there are exceptions, like if you hate face-to-face confrontation and you&#8217;re fictional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Break-ups can be tough. One minute you&#8217;re in love, the next minute you&#8217;re returning his letters and he&#8217;s stabbing your father through a curtain in an ill-fated attempt to avenge the king. I think we,   <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":1448985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[8011,628,524,17430,25017,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397801"}],"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=1397801"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448986,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397801\/revisions\/1448986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1448985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}