{"id":1402402,"date":"2020-05-27T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1402402"},"modified":"2020-05-27T10:06:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T14:06:36","slug":"10-weirdly-specific-things-that-happen-in-every-young-adult-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/10-weirdly-specific-things-that-happen-in-every-young-adult-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Weirdly Specific Things That Happen in Every Young Adult Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/may31weirdlyspecificyaMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have read every YA novel in the world. Not really (I&#8217;m just a person, after all), but sometimes it <em>feels<\/em> as if I have because there are some weirdly specific things that happen in just about all of them. (Also, I like to PRETEND I&#8217;ve read every YA novel in the world because the truth\u2014that it&#8217;s impossible to read them all, and I will die leaving some unread\u2014is just too painful. Better to stick with denial.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope it doesn&#8217;t sound like I&#8217;m hating on YA (a genre that gets the lion&#8217;s share of hate already) because I&#8217;m not! I love YA. I love it like Oscar Wilde loved silk cravats or Charles Dickens loved run-on sentences. The only reason I bring this up is because I see this stuff CONSTANTLY, and I feel like we can do better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have read every YA novel in the world. Not really (I&#8217;m just a person, after all), but sometimes it feels as if I have because there are some weirdly specific things that happen in   <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":[438,22594,628,1407,25017,1276],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402402"}],"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=1402402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443822,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402402\/revisions\/1443822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}