{"id":1417772,"date":"2020-06-16T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1417772"},"modified":"2020-06-16T11:34:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T15:34:13","slug":"7-fictional-characters-who-would-have-been-better-off-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/7-fictional-characters-who-would-have-been-better-off-single\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Fictional Characters Whose Love Lives Ruined Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/romeoandjulietwhostoblamesep30_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re a fictional character and you&#8217;re dating someone, well, that&#8217;s just playing with fire. Do you know the most common cause of death in the world of fiction? It&#8217;s not sword fights or tuberculosis or even The Long Winter. No, no, it&#8217;s RELATIONSHIPS. Characters are constantly dying of Being in a Relationship, or else they&#8217;re dying of Someone Else Being in a Relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The evidence? The following fictional characters all started dating people, and pretty much everyone they knew died as a result. Say what you will about your last relationship, but at least it (probably) didn&#8217;t have a body count.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a fictional character and you&#8217;re dating someone, well, that&#8217;s just playing with fire. Do you know the most common cause of death in the world of fiction? It&#8217;s not sword fights or tuberculosis   <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":[628,2335,17432,7915,25017],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417772"}],"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=1417772"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444057,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417772\/revisions\/1444057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}