{"id":1401590,"date":"2021-06-04T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1401590"},"modified":"2021-06-04T13:51:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T17:51:44","slug":"8-weirdly-specific-things-that-happen-in-every-dystopian-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/8-weirdly-specific-things-that-happen-in-every-dystopian-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Weirdly Specific Things That Happen in Every Dystopian Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/mar7weirdlyspecificdystopiaMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Whenever you crack open a dystopian novel (you know, to distract yourself from the real-life dystopian nightmare that we wake up to daily), there are a couple things you can expect. For instance, you can expect everyone to be wearing drab clothing. It&#8217;s like literary dystopias are a party, and the dress code is \u201cgray tunics, maybe a beige henley.\u201d I get why it happens. I do! This is a post-apocalyptic society where everybody&#8217;s fighting just to survive another season\u2014no one has <em>time<\/em> to go around looting the local Abercrombie and Fitch!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But sometimes it feels like once you&#8217;ve read one dystopian novel, you&#8217;ve pretty much read them all, and it&#8217;s because of specific things just like these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever you crack open a dystopian novel (you know, to distract yourself from the real-life dystopian nightmare that we wake up to daily), there are a couple things you can expect. For instance, you can   <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":[628,4480,23801,13128,23032],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401590"}],"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=1401590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445603,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401590\/revisions\/1445603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}