{"id":1399129,"date":"2022-02-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1399129"},"modified":"2022-02-01T17:09:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T22:09:33","slug":"the-8-most-messed-up-relationships-in-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/the-8-most-messed-up-relationships-in-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"8 of the Most Messed-Up Relationships in Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/rochesterjaneeyre2262019.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some fictional romances give us an ideal to aspire to\u2014a reason to keep trudging through the depressing real-life swampland of bad Tinder dates and unanswered texts in the hopes that our very own Mr. Darcy is right around the corner, although I&#8217;m more of a Captain Wentworth girl myself. (There&#8217;s nothing sexier than a man who writes you a love letter and then immediately leaves the room. Change my mind.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So some fictional relationships are very good. Wonderful, even. Others? Well, others are a cautionary tale of what happens when you have the audacity to hold another person&#8217;s hand. The following, as you can probably tell, are those relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some fictional romances give us an ideal to aspire to\u2014a reason to keep trudging through the depressing real-life swampland of bad Tinder dates and unanswered texts in the hopes that our very own Mr. Darcy   <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":[628,2335,2342,25017,19223],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399129"}],"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=1399129"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443498,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399129\/revisions\/1443498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}