{"id":646,"date":"2026-01-18T17:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=646"},"modified":"2026-01-18T17:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:30:20","slug":"stranger-things-controversial-ending-could-have-been-way-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=646","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Things&#8217; Controversial Ending Could Have Been Way Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/db\/tv-show\/stranger-things\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Stranger Things<\/em><\/strong><\/a>&#8216; ending proved controversial, it could have been way worse. <em>Stranger Things<\/em> came to an end after nearly ten years, closing the book on a story that began with a group of kids on bikes and grew alongside them into a global phenomenon. Audiences watched the Hawkins crew age in real time and face increasingly bigger threats.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Stranger Things&#8216; ending proved controversial, it could have been way worse. Stranger Things came to an end after nearly ten years, closing the book on a story that began with a group of kids [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}