{"id":2944,"date":"2018-06-18T12:01:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T16:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?p=2944"},"modified":"2018-06-17T21:43:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T01:43:26","slug":"episode-100-ready-player-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-100-ready-player-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 100 &#8211; Ready Player One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2945 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/RPO-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ready Player One by Ernest Cline\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/RPO-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/RPO-142x220.jpg 142w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/RPO.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s our 100th episode! Kait, Renata, and their editor Becca have been studying up on our bad book trivia for years to be able to process <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2yiKj19\"><em>Ready Player One<\/em> by Ernest Cline<\/a>. This has been one of our most-requested books over the years, so we weren&#8217;t surprised when it won our listener poll for the 100th episode. We\u00a0<em>were\u00a0<\/em>surprised by how it was almost exactly like all the parodies of it we saw on Twitter. Thanks to all our listeners for helping us make it to 100 episodes! We love you all so much we want to stand in your yards and play this episode on a boombox.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers advisory<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/readers-advisory-episode-100-ready-player-one\">Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Footnotes:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x3pHRPDsr1M\">John Mulaney explains Back to the Future<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_20267_the-6-most-absurd-product-placements-in-video-game-history.html\">The 6 Most Absurd Product Placements in Video Game History<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8-3jDVTLdaQ\">Monster Factory: The Boy Mayor of Second Life<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=orrcgpJ5tQ4\">Monster Factory: Second Life, Second Chances<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9SPi8d5hhQk\">DM&#8217;s Deep Dive: D&amp;D Economics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1Jgwdkxzg78\">Grandma Shirley Plays Skyrim<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Candy pairing:<\/strong>\u00a0 Becca says <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Darkened_Skye\">Skittles<\/a>, Kait says <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2MzLCMC\">Airheads<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0Renata says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exploratorium.edu\/cooking\/candy\/sugar.html\">the description of a sugar molecule<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coming up next:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2t40Ot4\"><em>The Ghost in the Third Row<\/em> by Bruce Coville<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0<em>Worst Bestsellers<\/em>\u00a0<em>is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;node=1000&amp;site-redirect=&amp;tag=worstbests0e-20&amp;linkId=Z2A4ORUYFZJ4UA6Q\">Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(But no pressure, we\u2019re also happy if you get these items from your local library or independent bookstore.)<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4225\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2944-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/100ReadyPlayerOne.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/100ReadyPlayerOne.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/100ReadyPlayerOne.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/100ReadyPlayerOne.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?powerpress_pinw=2944-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/100ReadyPlayerOne.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"100ReadyPlayerOne.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s our 100th episode! Kait, Renata, and their editor Becca have been studying up on our bad book trivia for years to be able to process Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. This has been one of our most-requested books &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-100-ready-player-one\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1431,6,1430],"class_list":["post-2944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-ernest-cline","tag-podcast","tag-ready-player-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2969,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions\/2969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}