{"id":1400976,"date":"2019-12-11T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1400976"},"modified":"2020-07-28T14:46:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T18:46:15","slug":"6-iconic-fictional-romances-that-probably-wouldnt-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/6-iconic-fictional-romances-that-probably-wouldnt-last\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Iconic Fictional Romances (That Definitely Wouldn&#8217;t Last)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/jan10doomedromanceSSMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes a romance is doomed to fail and everyone knows it. I have a friend who is seeing a guy who says \u201ccold slaw\u201d instead of \u201ccoleslaw,\u201d so you just know that relationship is going nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>A break-up can happen anywhere, at any time\u2014even after the happy ending that&#8217;s so prevalent in books. The writers want you to believe it&#8217;ll be smooth sailing from here on out, but the truth is these perfect romances in fiction are just about as doomed as my New Year&#8217;s resolution to stop eating sugar. So with that in mind, let&#8217;s discuss fictional romances that wouldn&#8217;t last five minutes beyond the final page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a romance is doomed to fail and everyone knows it. I have a friend who is seeing a guy who says \u201ccold slaw\u201d instead of \u201ccoleslaw,\u201d so you just know that relationship is going   <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":[438,628,32,1055,3345,23162,24456,25017,8058,248,694,1764],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400976"}],"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=1400976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441923,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400976\/revisions\/1441923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}