{"id":1399823,"date":"2019-02-28T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1399823"},"modified":"2020-08-27T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T20:53:00","slug":"the-7-most-awkward-moments-in-classic-literature-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/the-7-most-awkward-moments-in-classic-literature-ranked\/","title":{"rendered":"The 7 Most Awkward Moments in Classic Literature, Ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/AWKWARDLIZZIEANDDARCY_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say you and I are watching a movie together and something awkward happens to the characters onscreen. The next sound you&#8217;ll hear will be me leaping out the nearest open window, because I just can&#8217;t deal with that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>I myself am charmless, off-putting, and uncomfortable no less than 100% of the time. I always have something on my shirt, and I am constantly wondering if I&#8217;m making too much eye contact or too little. As such, I typically watch movies and TV shows to <i>escape the potential for awkwardness<\/i>, not to <i>invite more of it into my life<\/i>. Sometimes I just need to kick back, relax, and read or watch something where no one is at the risk of waving to someone who was not actually waving at them.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d think, then, that I&#8217;d be safe reading ye olde classics. You&#8217;d think that, but you would be wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s say you and I are watching a movie together and something awkward happens to the characters onscreen. The next sound you&#8217;ll hear will be me leaping out the nearest open window, because I just   <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":[3962,438,628,2335,524,25017,756,24226,694,1764,389],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399823"}],"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=1399823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443962,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399823\/revisions\/1443962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}