{"id":1417961,"date":"2021-05-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1417961"},"modified":"2021-05-11T09:58:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T13:58:54","slug":"the-7-most-awkward-parties-in-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/the-7-most-awkward-parties-in-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"The 7 Most Excruciatingly Awkward Parties in Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/jan3ficnewyearsresolutionsMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you ever attended an awkward party? I sure have. In fact, every party I&#8217;ve ever gone to has been nothing short of catastrophic. I&#8217;ll laugh too loudly to cover up an uncomfortable silence, I&#8217;ll blurt things out, I&#8217;ll spill stuff on myself and roughly nine other people. There doesn&#8217;t even have to be anything spillable on the premises\u2014just give me a room full of people wearing crisp white shirts and trust me, I&#8217;ll find a way to spill something on each and every one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, there are certain parties in literature that make MY awkward parties look downright elegant by comparison. These are those parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever attended an awkward party? I sure have. In fact, every party I&#8217;ve ever gone to has been nothing short of catastrophic. I&#8217;ll laugh too loudly to cover up an uncomfortable silence, I&#8217;ll   <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":[628,2335,25017,756],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417961"}],"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=1417961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444241,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417961\/revisions\/1444241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}