{"id":1405270,"date":"2019-04-15T12:30:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T16:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1405270"},"modified":"2019-04-19T09:53:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T13:53:35","slug":"10-fictional-characters-who-are-worse-at-flirting-than-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/10-fictional-characters-who-are-worse-at-flirting-than-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Fictional Characters Who Are Way Worse at Flirting Than You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/mrcollinsbadatflirting_LargeWide.jpg\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\"><\/p>\n<p>Flirting is just having a conversation with someone you wouldn&#8217;t mind making out with and indicating, over the course of that conversation, that you wouldn&#8217;t mind making out with them. That&#8217;s all flirting is.<\/p>\n<p>In the moment, however, it doesn&#8217;t feel quite so simple. In the moment, the stakes feel absurdly high. Your heart is pounding like you are a spy in enemy territory, and your palms are sweating like you&#8217;re having a calculated chat with a foreign dignitary who is already suspicious of your conduct, and your stomach is doing backflips like you are one misstep away from being executed on trumped-up charges. (Your own government will deny your existence, of course.) (You knew they would. You knew the risk.) (The mission has to continue with or without you.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, flirting is rough. It&#8217;s difficult to do, and it&#8217;s especially difficult to do WELL. But even if you think you&#8217;re terrible at flirting, I guarantee you will never be as terrible as the following characters from literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flirting is just having a conversation with someone you wouldn&#8217;t mind making out with and indicating, over the course of that conversation, that you wouldn&#8217;t mind making out with them. That&#8217;s all flirting is. 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":[628,2335,4700,524,17430,756,3648,102,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405270"}],"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=1405270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}