{"id":2729,"date":"2010-11-02T08:16:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T13:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2010-11-02T08:16:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T13:16:56","slug":"flavorwires-top-10-sidekicks-in-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=2729","title":{"rendered":"Flavorwire&#039;s Top 10 Sidekicks in Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2730\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/sancho-panza.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2730\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2730\" title=\"sancho.panza\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/sancho-panza.jpg?w=144\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Flavorwire<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the number five spot, Sancho Panza, Don Quixote&#8217;s long suffering companion.<\/p>\n<p>Per <a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\" target=\"_blank\">Flavorwire<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Sidekick to:<\/strong> Don Quixote<\/p>\n<p><strong>Backstory:<\/strong> Don Quixote, an older man who, after  reading one to many fairytales, decides to go out on a quest of his own.  He shortly recruits one of his neighbors, Sancho, to be his squire,  promising him the governorship of an island.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strengths:<\/strong> Loyal to the end<\/p>\n<p><strong>Weakness:<\/strong> Not the sharpest sword in the armory&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What\u2019s a good hero without a trusty sidekick? From the open road to  deserted islands to Middle Earth, friendships inevitably form. Of course  most of the time the plot\u2019s weight shifts primarily on one character.  This leaves the other friend to fill in the gaps, complimenting  the\u00a0temperament\u00a0and abilities of the hero and maybe adding a laugh or  two here and there. We thought we\u2019d rank the top 10 in literature based  on loyalty,\u00a0friendship, and overall awesomeness.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/127231\/the-top-10-sidekicks-in-literature\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to see all of the sidekicks.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the number five spot, Sancho Panza, Don Quixote&#8217;s long suffering companion. Per Flavorwire: &#8220;Sidekick to: Don Quixote Backstory: Don Quixote, an older man who, after reading one to many fairytales, decides to go out on a quest of his own. He shortly recruits one of his neighbors, Sancho, to be his squire, promising him&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-literary-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-I1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}