{"id":1444443,"date":"2024-01-09T08:04:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T13:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=1444443"},"modified":"2024-01-09T13:00:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T18:00:51","slug":"9-of-the-most-wtf-deaths-in-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/9-of-the-most-wtf-deaths-in-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"9 of the Most WTF Deaths in Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/greatexpectationshavishamwtfMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In literature, ANYONE can die of tuberculosis or poison or <em>the war<\/em>. However, it takes a special kind of fictional character to die of something truly bonkers, like spontaneous combustion or an angry mob or a really abrupt bear attack in a story that has done virtually nothing to set that up. \u201cGot any examples?\u201d I can hear you asking, and boy do we!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In literature, ANYONE can die of tuberculosis or poison or the war. However, it takes a special kind of fictional character to die of something truly bonkers, like spontaneous combustion or an angry mob or   <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":[628,1105,25153,25017,25154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444443"}],"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=1444443"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448799,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444443\/revisions\/1448799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}