{"id":1402814,"date":"2018-07-23T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1402814"},"modified":"2018-07-23T11:35:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T15:35:25","slug":"if-lord-of-the-rings-characters-had-tinder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/if-lord-of-the-rings-characters-had-tinder\/","title":{"rendered":"If <i>Lord of the Rings<\/i> Characters Had Tinder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/tinderlotrgandalf2MAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most fictional characters are perfect. And even when they&#8217;re not, they are.<\/p>\n<p>But put them on Tinder, and they become just like every other guy in his early twenties named Kyle who&#8217;s \u201clooking for something real, swipe right if you think you can handle me.\u201d Legolas would probably have a ton of mirror selfies. Aragorn would use bad puns. And Elrond? Don&#8217;t even get me started.<\/p>\n<p>Look, what I&#8217;m trying to say is this: if any of the <i>Lord of the Rings<\/i> characters were on Tinder, we would think twice before swiping right.<\/p>\n<p>Or would we? Probably. (But <i>would we<\/i>?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most fictional characters are perfect. And even when they&#8217;re not, they are. But put them on Tinder, and they become just like every other guy in his early twenties named Kyle who&#8217;s \u201clooking for something   <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":485,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[438,155,1356,22768,24528,12683,2285,3437,3648,13843,10309],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402814"}],"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\/485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}