{"id":1398040,"date":"2021-03-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1398040"},"modified":"2021-03-22T18:17:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T22:17:06","slug":"the-worst-breakups-in-literature-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/the-worst-breakups-in-literature-ranked\/","title":{"rendered":"The 7 Worst Break-Ups in Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/6820worstbreakupsMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Look, no one likes to read books about people breaking up with each other with grace and maturity. We like to read books where people take a loving, stable relationship and burn it to the ground. That&#8217;s why most fictional break-ups are the literary equivalent of a train going off a cliff while it&#8217;s on fire and also there&#8217;s a tornado in the background coming closer\u2014not because it&#8217;s realistic, necessarily, but because it&#8217;s more fun that way. Here are some of those break-ups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look, no one likes to read books about people breaking up with each other with grace and maturity. We like to read books where people take a loving, stable relationship and burn it to the   <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":[82,628,524,25017,756],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398040"}],"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=1398040"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443939,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398040\/revisions\/1443939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}