{"id":1398909,"date":"2019-06-27T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1398909"},"modified":"2019-06-26T10:04:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T14:04:44","slug":"7-of-the-most-disappointing-endings-in-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/7-of-the-most-disappointing-endings-in-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"7 of the Most Disappointing Endings in Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/mockingjayfirekatnissMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not every literary ending is a home-run. Sometimes you will be enjoying a book immensely, only to have it all go horribly wrong in the last few pages.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line: there is a right way and a wrong way to end a novel. And instead of applauding the authors who did it right (where&#8217;s the fun in that?), today we are going to be taking a look at all of the authors who did it \u00a0totally and objectively wrong in the eyes of our lettered society.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Obligatory disclaimer:<\/strong> this post is going to be chock full of spoilers. So if you&#8217;re fussy about that kind of thing, tread carefully, or maybe just go read all the \u00a0books in the world and then come back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not every literary ending is a home-run. Sometimes you will be enjoying a book immensely, only to have it all go horribly wrong in the last few pages. Bottom line: there is a right way   <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":[628,32,3387,22728,5810,2879,25017,24037,2936,5958],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398909"}],"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=1398909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}