{"id":1418412,"date":"2021-06-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1418412"},"modified":"2021-06-24T13:12:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T17:12:25","slug":"5-popular-books-whose-original-titles-would-have-changed-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/5-popular-books-whose-original-titles-would-have-changed-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Popular Books Whose Original Titles Would Have Changed Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/71219originaltitlesMAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Much like doing a cartwheel or correctly saying the word \u201canemone,\u201d coming up with a title for your book is just one of those things you have to try a few times before you get it right.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jane Austen, for instance, considered calling her novel <em>First Impressions<\/em> before eventually settling on <em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em>. This is a perfectly innocuous option, I think you&#8217;ll agree. If she had stuck with <em>First Impressions<\/em>, we all would&#8217;ve been fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, some authors nearly chose titles for their books that would have changed the world as we know it, and no, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m exaggerating this point one bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much like doing a cartwheel or correctly saying the word \u201canemone,\u201d coming up with a title for your book is just one of those things you have to try a few times before you get   <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":[12177,628,2335,25017,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418412"}],"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=1418412"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1447586,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418412\/revisions\/1447586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}