{"id":132639,"date":"2020-02-18T01:54:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T00:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/02\/18\/hq-trivia-hosts-final-drunken-quiz-after-investors-pull-plug-my-dogs-are-going-to-starve\/"},"modified":"2020-02-18T01:54:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T00:54:33","slug":"hq-trivia-hosts-final-drunken-quiz-after-investors-pull-plug-my-dogs-are-going-to-starve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=132639","title":{"rendered":"HQ Trivia hosts final drunken quiz after investors pull plug: &#039;My dogs are going to starve!&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The app sensation has drawn millions of players and awarded $6m in prize moneyOnline quiz app HQ Trivia, which at its peak was played by more than 2 million people a day, has hosted its last game \u2013 with inebriated hosts awarding a total prize pool of US$5.Described as a \u201cfinal drunken hurrah\u201d, the app\u2019s last broadcast was watched by 28,000 people after the company told employees last Friday it would shut down due to lack of funding. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2020\/feb\/18\/hq-trivia-hosts-final-drunken-quiz-after-investors-pull-plug-my-dogs-are-going-to-starve\" target=\"_blank\">HQ Trivia hosts final drunken quiz after investors pull plug: &#039;My dogs are going to starve!&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The app sensation has drawn millions of players and awarded $6m in prize moneyOnline quiz app HQ Trivia, which at its peak was played by more than 2 million people a day, has hosted its last game \u2013 with inebriated hosts awarding a total prize pool of US$5.Described as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}