{"id":1417763,"date":"2019-09-03T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1417763"},"modified":"2019-09-03T09:38:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T13:38:44","slug":"6-fictional-villains-who-actually-had-a-good-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/6-fictional-villains-who-actually-had-a-good-point\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Fictional Villains Who Actually Had a Good Point"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/frankensteinchapersusmmedupMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the TV show of my life, I&#8217;m probably the villain. I wear a lot of black and red, I monologue unnecessarily, and my laugh is really more of a cackle. Of <em>course<\/em> I&#8217;m the villain. (I also say things like \u201cWe&#8217;re the same, you and I!\u201d and \u201cYou just don&#8217;t get it, do you?\u201d along with the occasional \u201cAnd there&#8217;s nothing you or anyone else can do to stop me!\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, I have a certain affinity for villains. I know some of them are irredeemably evil and just plain rude, sure, but others? Well, I think others were making good points and we were just too caught up in our false dichotomies to listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the TV show of my life, I&#8217;m probably the villain. I wear a lot of black and red, I monologue unnecessarily, and my laugh is really more of a cackle. Of course I&#8217;m the   <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":[22461,438,628,2335,4700,25017],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417763"}],"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=1417763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419323,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417763\/revisions\/1419323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}