{"id":1402455,"date":"2019-09-05T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1402455"},"modified":"2019-09-04T15:33:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T19:33:20","slug":"literary-love-triangles-ranked-from-best-to-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/literary-love-triangles-ranked-from-best-to-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Love Triangles, Ranked from Best to Worst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/jun5lovetrianglesSSMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When done right, a love triangle is a richly told, sometimes tragic tale of star-crossed passion. When done wrong, it&#8217;s just a bunch of angst and longing looks cobbled together to sell T-shirts that could very well TEAR OUR SOCIETY APART. (Team Edward vs. Team Jacob, for example, nearly sent our world plummeting into a thousand years of darkness, but we&#8217;ll get to that.)<\/p>\n<p>Basically, love triangles happen. Sometimes they&#8217;re good, sometimes they&#8217;re bad, and sometimes they&#8217;re whatever was happening in <i>Mockingjay<\/i>. (We&#8217;ll get to that, too.) Today we&#8217;ll be ranking literature&#8217;s most famous love triangles from best to worst, starting with\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When done right, a love triangle is a richly told, sometimes tragic tale of star-crossed passion. When done wrong, it&#8217;s just a bunch of angst and longing looks cobbled together to sell T-shirts that could   <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":[438,628,17432,23032,4435,2879,25017,694,1250,33,389],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402455"}],"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=1402455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419377,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402455\/revisions\/1419377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}