{"id":1441626,"date":"2020-09-11T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1441626"},"modified":"2020-09-11T17:25:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T21:25:44","slug":"5-famous-books-that-got-away-with-major-plot-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/5-famous-books-that-got-away-with-major-plot-holes\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Famous Books That Got Away with Major Plot Holes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/lordoftheringsgandalf91120_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A plot hole is an inconsistency in a story that goes against the established logic of the narrative&#8217;s universe. For instance, some people say it makes no sense that Frodo and Sam didn&#8217;t fly the Ring to Mordor, that Time Turners weren&#8217;t more widely used in <em>Harry Potter<\/em>, that Michael B. Jordan is currently single. (I firmly believe it contradicts the established logic of our universe that a man as handsome as Michael B. Jordan has no one to watch Netflix with.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So that&#8217;s what plot holes are. Now here are five famous novels that got away with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plot hole is an inconsistency in a story that goes against the established logic of the narrative&#8217;s universe. For instance, some people say it makes no sense that Frodo and Sam didn&#8217;t fly 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":[438,628,524,2285,25017,8672],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441626"}],"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=1441626"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445066,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441626\/revisions\/1445066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}