{"id":1443529,"date":"2020-04-29T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=1443529"},"modified":"2020-04-28T14:46:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T18:46:17","slug":"the-7-dumbest-decisions-made-by-fictional-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/the-7-dumbest-decisions-made-by-fictional-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"The 6 Dumbest Decisions Made by Fictional Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/btswithshakespeareaug23_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I will freely admit I&#8217;ve made some bad decisions. Ordering spaghetti on a first date, for one thing. (It was messy.) Going rollerblading in a tornado, for another. (I hit a mailbox.) Furthermore, my freshman year of high school was just one mistake after another (I wore a lot of cropped vests), and don&#8217;t even get me started on the Fourth of July snafu of 2017. (I took a wrong turn and wound up in the parade. Fun for Ferris Bueller, less fun for someone who was already running late to lunch.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mention all of this to assure you I have some experience in the field. See, this list is not a call-out or a condemnation; rather it is a celebration of my fellow (fictional) morons who wouldn&#8217;t know a good decision if it jumped out in front of them shouting, \u201cPick me! Pick me!\u201d So without further ado, here are six fictional characters whose decision-making skills make me (a person who once shoved a large stick into a beehive when she was eight) look like an absolute genius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will freely admit I&#8217;ve made some bad decisions. Ordering spaghetti on a first date, for one thing. (It was messy.) Going rollerblading in a tornado, for another. (I hit a mailbox.) Furthermore, my freshman   <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":[628,32,25017,248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443529"}],"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=1443529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443532,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443529\/revisions\/1443532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}