{"id":1417713,"date":"2019-08-19T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1417713"},"modified":"2021-03-30T22:10:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T02:10:02","slug":"quiz-can-you-identify-the-ya-book-by-its-first-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/quiz-can-you-identify-the-ya-book-by-its-first-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"QUIZ: Can You Guess the YA Novel from Its First Sentence?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/lovesimonyafirstsentencequizMAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I love young adult novels. I read them very quickly because I have been cursed with an inability to put a book down once I start it, which means dishes often go undone and laundry often goes unfolded as I read feverishly into the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, sometimes I become so immersed in a book that I can&#8217;t remember a time when I wasn&#8217;t reading it, which of course means I&#8217;ve forgotten how the whole thing started in the first place. So for me, this quiz would be very difficult. For you? Maybe not so much. Let&#8217;s find out, shall we?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love young adult novels. I read them very quickly because I have been cursed with an inability to put a book down once I start it, which means dishes often go undone and laundry   <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":[25016],"tags":[438,25017,1653,20770,630,1276],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417713"}],"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=1417713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419127,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417713\/revisions\/1419127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}