{"id":1443178,"date":"2021-04-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=1443178"},"modified":"2021-04-12T17:31:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T21:31:10","slug":"8-book-endings-everyone-hated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/8-book-endings-everyone-hated\/","title":{"rendered":"8 of the Most Controversial Endings in Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/2620tswiftclassicsMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not easy to write the end of a book. (I&#8217;d like to see you try it!) You can write a phenomenal story, but if the denouement is a dissatisfying, anti-climactic mess of loose ends and unanswered questions, well, that&#8217;s all anyone&#8217;s going to remember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m sure at least one person (maybe even two!) will take issue with the books I&#8217;ve included on this list. \u201cNot everyone hated the ending to [BOOK]!\u201d you might say indignantly. \u201cI liked it!\u201d Look, I understand! I&#8217;ve been there! I like green olives on my pizza, and everyone in my life hates me for it! I&#8217;m on your side!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But you and I are going to need to come to terms with our statistical insignificance here. We&#8217;re lone truth-tellers among the incorrect masses, sure, but we&#8217;re a drop in the bucket. Everyone hates green olives. Everyone also hated certain endings to certain books. These, I&#8217;m sorry to say, are those endings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not easy to write the end of a book. (I&#8217;d like to see you try it!) You can write a phenomenal story, but if the denouement is a dissatisfying, anti-climactic mess of loose ends   <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":[628,32,5810,25017],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443178"}],"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=1443178"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1447145,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443178\/revisions\/1447145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}