{"id":1417710,"date":"2020-02-25T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1417710"},"modified":"2020-02-24T12:30:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T17:30:40","slug":"literary-last-words-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/literary-last-words-ranked\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Last Words, Ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/42419authorslastworksMAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last words are a pretty big deal if you&#8217;re a famous author. People are going to remember what you mumbled in a fit of near-death delirium long after you become a pile of bones in the dirt, so you&#8217;d better make it good.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want my last words to be \u201cI love you all,\u201d or maybe \u201cAvenge me,\u201d but I know for a fact my last words will actually be \u201cWait, what?\u201d and I guess I&#8217;m going to have to be okay with that. However, I hold famous authors to a higher standard. They&#8217;ve made a whole CAREER out of being eloquent and meaningful. I don&#8217;t <em>care<\/em> if you&#8217;re dying of a violent fever in the middle of a war, Lord Byron; say something witty in your final hours so I can tell people about it at parties!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To that end, here are some last words of famous authors, ranked from worst to best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last words are a pretty big deal if you&#8217;re a famous author. People are going to remember what you mumbled in a fit of near-death delirium long after you become a pile of bones 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":[9758,438,628,2335,25063],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417710"}],"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=1417710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442667,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417710\/revisions\/1442667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}