{"id":1444587,"date":"2021-04-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=1444587"},"modified":"2021-04-16T13:49:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T17:49:29","slug":"5-books-youll-hate-in-high-school-but-love-later-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/5-books-youll-hate-in-high-school-but-love-later-on\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Books You&#8217;ll HATE in High School But Love Later On"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/chrishemsworthheartofthesea94MAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to enjoy a book that someone&#8217;s forcing you to read. And doing it in the hellscape that is high school? Absolutely not. Lunch is at 10:30 AM, everything&#8217;s due tomorrow, and guess what? We&#8217;re running the mile in PE today, which will take you approximately 12 minutes to complete while everyone who&#8217;s already done gets to watch you struggle sweatily towards the finish line in your dumbest-looking shorts. Simply put, you&#8217;re not in the best headspace to appreciate <em>anything <\/em>in high school, much less lengthy, extremely confusing novels that were written 200 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But once you leave\u2014a little older and a little wiser than you were when you first arrived\u2014you&#8217;ll realize some of the books you previously skimmed are actually pretty decent. In fact, you might even call them good. These are a few of the books in question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to enjoy a book that someone&#8217;s forcing you to read. And doing it in the hellscape that is high school? Absolutely not. Lunch is at 10:30 AM, everything&#8217;s due tomorrow, and guess what?   <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":[628,2335,325,25017,3049],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444587"}],"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=1444587"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444997,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444587\/revisions\/1444997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}