{"id":1401997,"date":"2018-04-20T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1401997"},"modified":"2019-02-08T11:30:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T16:30:13","slug":"fictional-characters-who-would-make-the-worst-prom-dates-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/fictional-characters-who-would-make-the-worst-prom-dates-ranked\/","title":{"rendered":"Fictional Characters Who Would Make the Worst Prom Dates, Ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/apr19worstpromdates2MAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are many ways prom can go wrong (your corsage catches fire, the apocalypse happens, the music is just \u201cYou&#8217;re Beautiful\u201d by James Blunt over and over), but the worst is when your date is revealed in the fullness of time to be Bad. A bad prom date ditches you to hang out with their friends. A bad prom date throws up on your shoes. A bad prom date introduces you to their parents as \u201cthe one\u201d when you thought you guys were just going as friends.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now, there are many fictional characters I would LIKE to go to prom with (Sirius Black, Elizabeth Bennet, Benvolio), but it is far and away more interesting to talk about the ones I wouldn&#8217;t go to prom with if my life depended on it. Here they are, ranked from &#8220;bad, but not exactly terrible&#8221; to &#8220;exactly terrible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many ways prom can go wrong (your corsage catches fire, the apocalypse happens, the music is just \u201cYou&#8217;re Beautiful\u201d by James Blunt over and over), but the worst is when your date is   <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":[7,438,8611,628,2335,4700,1763,32,7915,2344,756,17,4132,248,694,33,389],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401997"}],"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=1401997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}