{"id":1400603,"date":"2019-11-13T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1400603"},"modified":"2019-11-12T16:11:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T21:11:11","slug":"10-fictional-problems-that-could-have-been-solved-with-a-text-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/10-fictional-problems-that-could-have-been-solved-with-a-text-message\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Problems in Fiction That Could Have Been Solved with a Simple Text Message"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/romeoandjulietwhostoblamesep30_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cell phones are pretty great. There is simply no other innovation that has impacted my life as much as the one that allows me to scroll though Instagram while I&#8217;m sitting on the toilet. I use my phone for almost everything\u2014answering texts, ignoring texts, getting texts and then forgetting about them for three weeks until it&#8217;s too late to respond with any semblance of grace so you just consider the friendship finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if fictional characters had the capacity to text, I&#8217;m positive most problems in books\u2014far from dragging on for hundreds upon hundreds of conflict-riddled pages\u2014would last about five seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell phones are pretty great. There is simply no other innovation that has impacted my life as much as the one that allows me to scroll though Instagram while I&#8217;m sitting on the toilet. I   <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":[438,2153,628,2551,524,32,17430,3345,666,25017,756,171,248,3648,102,23148,694,1764,389],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400603"}],"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=1400603"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441683,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400603\/revisions\/1441683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}