{"id":1400490,"date":"2021-08-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1400490"},"modified":"2021-08-20T09:43:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T13:43:19","slug":"6-iconic-literary-villains-who-were-actually-pretty-bad-at-being-villains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/6-iconic-literary-villains-who-were-actually-pretty-bad-at-being-villains\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Iconic Fictional Villains (Who Were Actually Pretty Bad at Being Villains)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/EVAGREENVILLAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As a society, we like our villains to be cunning, powerful, and evil, or at least just like really, really mean. But sometimes even the most iconic malefactors fall far short of this sinister standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It feels a bit bold for me\u2014a person who can&#8217;t even take control of her life, much less take control of the world\u2014to be calling anyone out like this. Look, I&#8217;ll be the first to say it: I could never be a villain. I don&#8217;t have the gumption, the cruelty, or the street smarts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But hey\u2014as it turns out, neither do these guys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a society, we like our villains to be cunning, powerful, and evil, or at least just like really, really mean. But sometimes even the most iconic malefactors fall far short of this sinister standard.   <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":[438,628,2335,7443,25017],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400490"}],"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=1400490"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445619,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400490\/revisions\/1445619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}