{"id":1418591,"date":"2019-08-02T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1418591"},"modified":"2019-08-02T09:46:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T13:46:50","slug":"6-fictional-characters-you-wouldnt-want-to-go-on-a-road-trip-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/6-fictional-characters-you-wouldnt-want-to-go-on-a-road-trip-with\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Fictional Characters You Wouldn&#8217;t Want to Go on a Road Trip With"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/8119worstroadtripMAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Going on a road trip can be fun\u2014with the right person. With the wrong person, it is an exercise in abject human suffering. I went to college several hours away, so I regularly made the trip home with whichever random stranger would take me. More often than not, this person would be a friend of a friend, and they were almost always a lunatic. One in particular made me listen to the same Evanescence song on repeat, and generally drove like they were trying to escape the wrath of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suffice it to say there are very few people you&#8217;d want to be stuck in a car with for nine hours. The following fictional characters, for instance, would not be among those precious few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going on a road trip can be fun\u2014with the right person. With the wrong person, it is an exercise in abject human suffering. I went to college several hours away, so I regularly made 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":[438,628,32,25017,694,8222,1764,6295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418591"}],"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=1418591"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418623,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418591\/revisions\/1418623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}