{"id":1398103,"date":"2020-01-23T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1398103"},"modified":"2020-01-22T14:22:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T19:22:35","slug":"6-of-the-most-messed-up-books-we-all-had-to-read-for-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/6-of-the-most-messed-up-books-we-all-had-to-read-for-school\/","title":{"rendered":"6 of the Most Messed-Up Books We All Had to Read for School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/6mostmessedupcarrie_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\"><\/p>\n<p>We have all read our share of messed-up books in the name of school. Every single one of us has experienced an <i>In Cold Blood<\/i>, a <i>Lolita<\/i>, maybe a <i>Clockwork Orange<\/i> or two. It&#8217;s simply inevitable. Let&#8217;s talk about them.<\/p>\n<p>I could not include EVERY disturbing, godforsaken book that ever maligned our schools, so please let me know what I missed. Specifically, I did not include <i>The Yellow Wallpaper <\/i>because it&#8217;s a short story, not a book, and frankly I still don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m <i>there<\/i> yet, you know what I mean?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have all read our share of messed-up books in the name of school. Every single one of us has experienced an In Cold Blood, a Lolita, maybe a Clockwork Orange or two. It&#8217;s simply   <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":[6614,628,666,23902],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398103"}],"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=1398103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442423,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398103\/revisions\/1442423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}