{"id":28,"date":"2016-01-30T17:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T22:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2016-01-30T17:02:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T22:02:31","slug":"hello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/2016\/01\/30\/hello\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, and welcome to the Worst Blog, where we write stuff sometimes!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re here, there&#8217;s a good chance you know us, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/fourteenacross\">Kait<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/renatasnacks\">Renata<\/a>, from our podcast, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/\">The Worst Bestsellers.<\/a> Since starting the podcast, we&#8217;ve also tweeted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/worstbestseller\">@worstbestseller <\/a>and occasionally posted some extra essays and thoughts, written by us or friends, on the podcast page under the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/category\/extras\/\">Extras tag<\/a>. But we didn&#8217;t want to clutter up the podcast page with a lot of blog posts and things that were too far afield from our podcast&#8217;s fairly narrow focus (providing commentary on and readers advisory for popular books of questionable quality). And it turns out that no one is using Livejournal anymore, and we&#8217;re too old to really understand Tumblr, so we&#8217;re launching this blog!<\/p>\n<p>Here are some things that might appear on The Worst Blog:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Essays and extended thoughts on books discussed on The Worst Bestsellers, written by Kait &amp; Renata or by guests<\/li>\n<li>Book reviews and booktalks on books <em>not<\/em> discussed on The Worst Bestsellers<\/li>\n<li>Write-ups and thoughts about library programs<\/li>\n<li>Personal essays about whatever happens to catch Kait &amp; Renata&#8217;s fancy<\/li>\n<li>Pictures of Renata&#8217;s cat Duarte<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"st\">\u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/duarts-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Duarte seeing himself reflected in literature\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/duarts-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/duarts-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/duarts-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/duarts-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/duarts.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We hope you enjoy reading our stuff in addition to listening to it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, and welcome to the Worst Blog, where we write stuff sometimes! If you&#8217;re here, there&#8217;s a good chance you know us, Kait &amp; Renata, from our podcast, The Worst Bestsellers. Since starting the podcast, we&#8217;ve also tweeted from @worstbestseller &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/2016\/01\/30\/hello\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[13,12,10,11],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-otherstuff","category-podcaststuff","tag-duarte","tag-hello","tag-intro","tag-welcome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}