{"id":298636,"date":"2014-07-09T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2014\/07\/09\/three-percent-79-barely-surpassing-lorem-ipsum\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:45:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:45:03","slug":"three-percent-79-barely-surpassing-lorem-ipsum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2014\/07\/09\/three-percent-79-barely-surpassing-lorem-ipsum\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Percent #79: Barely Surpassing Lorem Ipsum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this week&#8217;s podcast, Chad and Tom preview the semifinals of the World Cup of Literature (both suspect Chile will meet the US in the Championship), and then discuss <em>The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair<\/em> and this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/books\/2014\/06\/francophone-hit-american-letdown.html\"><em>New Yorker<\/em> piece about its limited U.S. success.<\/a> Also, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/books\/2014\/06\/francophone-hit-american-letdown.html\">Penguin Cup<\/a> is stupid. <\/p>\n<p>In relation to the rants and raves portion of the podcast, here are three videos from the Estonian sketch comedy troupe that Chad praised. <\/p>\n<p>First, here&#8217;s one about how much it sucks to be Estonian:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aADjmpAHEYE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>And the &#8220;Knight Rider&#8221; one that he mentioned:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d-QIeng2lOo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CatapultFilms\">at this YouTube channel.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And in keeping with the Estonian-themed &#8220;rave,&#8221; this week&#8217;s music is <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/deserts\/deserts-zaha-hadid\">Zaha Hadid<\/a> from Deserts. <\/p>\n<p>Be sure and write us at threepercentpodcast@gmail.com with any suggestions, criticisms, etc. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this week&#8217;s podcast, Chad and Tom preview the semifinals of the World Cup of Literature (both suspect Chile will meet the US in the Championship), and then discuss &#8220;The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair&#8221; and this New Yorker piece about its limited U.S. success. Also, the Penguin Cup is stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67446],"tags":[7666,1646,40016,30456],"class_list":["post-298636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-three-percent-podcast","tag-chad-w-post","tag-review","tag-three-percent-podcast","tag-tom-roberge"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317346,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298636\/revisions\/317346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}