{"id":930,"date":"2015-09-28T12:02:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T16:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?p=930"},"modified":"2017-09-25T09:39:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T13:39:23","slug":"worst-bestsellers-drinking-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/worst-bestsellers-drinking-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Worst Bestsellers Drinking Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-31-new-moon\/\">one year podcastversary,<\/a> we crowdsourced a Worst Bestsellers drinking game! (Originally, we intended to make a <a href=\"http:\/\/foreveryoungadult.com\/2010\/03\/19\/the-official-fya-new-moon-drinking-game\/\"><em>New Moon<\/em> drinking game<\/a> to play as we recorded our episode, but we decided it would work better to make a general Worst Bestsellers drinking game that we could play as we recorded, but also that you guys could play along with any Worst Bestsellers episode.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Disclaimers<\/strong>: If you are not of legal drinking age, or do not partake in alcohol, or if it&#8217;s a school night, you can play with a non-alcoholic beverage! If you are playing with actual alcohol, remember that alcohol poisoning is real. Hydrate!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_9315.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-931 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_9315-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"New Moon Drinking\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_9315-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_9315-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>The rules<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Take a drink any time:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We say something that might jeopardize our relationship with our valued sponsor, \u00a0Christian Mingle dot com.<\/li>\n<li>We angrily defend something even if we don&#8217;t like it that much.<\/li>\n<li>We favorably compare a character to Christian Grey.<\/li>\n<li>We apply lessons learned from self-help books.<\/li>\n<li>We reference any other book we&#8217;ve previously read.<\/li>\n<li>We resent a character&#8217;s mansplaining.<\/li>\n<li>We promote a movie or TV show over a book.<\/li>\n<li>We suggest specific ways to make the book better.<\/li>\n<li>Anyone endorses fanfiction as being better than the book.<\/li>\n<li>Renata references something she heard on a podcast other than this one.<\/li>\n<li>Kait says &#8220;This was a book.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>We say &#8220;literally.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>We call something &#8220;garbage.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Duarte interrupts.<\/li>\n<li>Our guest thinks the book is much worse than Kait &amp; Renata did, because their standards have been drastically altered by this podcast.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Rules* for 9\/25\/17:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Musical theater reference.<\/li>\n<li>Steaks and Cakes.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The movie was better.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Woman describes own body in mirror.<\/li>\n<li>Uncomfortable written-out dialect.<\/li>\n<li>We frantically have to google something mid-show.<\/li>\n<li>Someone starts laughing during a dramatic reading.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* Not in the Bill Maher way<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much to everyone who suggested rules to this: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allthatihavemet\">@allthatihavemet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anachronistique\">@anachronistique<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/booksNyarn\">@booksNyarn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kikiloola\">@kikiloola,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ladydpw\">@ladydpw<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/merski_shells\">@merski_shells,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikegrinti\">@mikegrinti,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mingerschlag\">@mingerschlag,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/missrrg\">@missrrg<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sigridellis\">@sigridellis<\/a> via Twitter; Douglas, Elvina, Jake, and Paola via Facebook. Even if we didn&#8217;t end up using the exact rules you proposed, we appreciate your support of our drinking habit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of our one year podcastversary, we crowdsourced a Worst Bestsellers drinking game! (Originally, we intended to make a New Moon drinking game to play as we recorded our episode, but we decided it would work better to make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/worst-bestsellers-drinking-game\/\">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":[236],"tags":[433],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extras","tag-drinking-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","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=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2506,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/2506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}