{"id":1399657,"date":"2020-10-27T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1399657"},"modified":"2020-10-26T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T21:10:00","slug":"7-fictional-characters-who-didnt-deserve-to-have-a-happy-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/7-fictional-characters-who-didnt-deserve-to-have-a-happy-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Fictional Characters Who Didn&#8217;t Deserve to Have a Happy Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/tessdurbervilleseddieredmayne_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes you hate a fictional character so passionately that it almost feels like a betrayal when you reach the end of the book and they DON&#8217;T wind up being eaten by wolves or something. You were forced to watch them being terrible for roughly 52 chapters; the least the author could do is dole out some good old-fashioned karmic JUSTICE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, not every fictional jerkass gets the comeuppance they deserve. In fact, plenty of them go on to live long, fulfilling lives. Here are just seven of them (give or take).<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you hate a fictional character so passionately that it almost feels like a betrayal when you reach the end of the book and they DON&#8217;T wind up being eaten by wolves or something. You   <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":[438,628,2335,4700,25017],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399657"}],"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=1399657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445020,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399657\/revisions\/1445020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}