{"id":3553,"date":"2019-07-01T12:01:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T16:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2019-06-26T16:11:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T20:11:04","slug":"episode-127-sideways-stories-from-wayside-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-127-sideways-stories-from-wayside-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 127 &#8211; Sideways Stories from Wayside School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sideways.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3554 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sideways-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sideways-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sideways-141x220.jpg 141w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sideways.jpg 305w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The next stop on our Flashback Summer vacation is the 30th floor of an elementary school. Literary agent <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amyrstern\">Am<\/a>y joined us to read <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Ygdlan\"><em>Sideways Stories from Wayside School<\/em> by Louis Sachar<\/a>. Everyone should listen to this episode, <em>unless<\/em> you&#8217;re secretly a dead rat in a raincoat. Dead rats are\u00a0<em>not<\/em> allowed. Everyone else, join us on Apple podcasts before Mrs. Gorf turns you into an apple!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers advisory<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/readers-advisory-episode-127-sideways-stories-from-wayside-school\">Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Footnotes: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2016\/04\/ode-to-sideways-stories\/479526\/\">&#8220;The Absurd Joy of &#8216;Sideways Stories From Wayside School'&#8221; by Adrienne LaFrance<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.louissachar.com\/faq.html\">Louis Sachar&#8217;s FAQs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davemalloy.com\/ghost.html\">Ghost Quartet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Candy Pairing:\u00a0<\/strong> Amy says <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2NhSqTe\">candy apples<\/a>, Kait says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2019\/01\/24\/iconic-sky-bar-once-thought-gone-forever-is-coming-back\/\">Sky Bars<\/a>, Renata says <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2J5eWtg\">dinosaur egg oatmeal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coming up next:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2LiC8qJ\"><em>Pickle Puss<\/em> (Polk Street School Kids series) by Patricia Reilly Giff<\/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_2634\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3553-1\" 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\/127WaysideSchool.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/127WaysideSchool.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/127WaysideSchool.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\/127WaysideSchool.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?powerpress_pinw=3553-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/127WaysideSchool.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"127WaysideSchool.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>&nbsp; The next stop on our Flashback Summer vacation is the 30th floor of an elementary school. Literary agent Amy joined us to read Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar. Everyone should listen to this episode, unless you&#8217;re &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-127-sideways-stories-from-wayside-school\/\">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":[850,1692,6,1690,1691],"class_list":["post-3553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-flashback-summer","tag-louis-sachar","tag-podcast","tag-sideways-stories-from-wayside-school","tag-wayside-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553","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=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3565,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions\/3565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}