{"id":116217,"date":"2020-08-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/08\/random_world-famous_author_included_zelda_botw_ingredients_in_his_new_book_by_mistake"},"modified":"2020-08-03T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T08:00:00","slug":"random-world-famous-author-included-zelda-botw-ingredients-in-his-new-book-by-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/03\/random-world-famous-author-included-zelda-botw-ingredients-in-his-new-book-by-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: World-Famous Author Included Zelda: BOTW Ingredients In His New Book By Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a99cd8e99c58f\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a99cd8e99c58f\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Zelda: Breath of the Wild\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a99cd8e99c58f\/zelda-breath-of-the-wild.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a99cd8e99c58f\/zelda-breath-of-the-wild.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Zelda: Breath of the Wild\"><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">\u00a9 Nintendo Life<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Irish novelist <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Boyne\">John Boyne<\/a> has penned 18 books since 2000 (as well as a collection of short stories) but is perhaps most famous for his 2006 work <strong>The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas<\/strong>, the harrowing tale of a doomed friendship between a Jewish boy in a World War II concentration camp and the young son of the Nazi officer in charge. In 2008, the book was turned into an acclaimed Hollywood movie starring Asa Butterfield and David Thewlis.<\/p>\n<p>Boyne&#8217;s latest book, the fantasy novel <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Traveller-at-Gates-Wisdom\/dp\/0857526197?tag=nlife-21\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom<\/a><\/strong>, launched this year, and fans <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/redd.it\/i29dmr\">have discovered<\/a> an interesting passage describing the colouring of clothing. You <em>might<\/em> recognise some of the ingredients from a certain Switch \/ Wii U title:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>You may assume that given the book&#8217;s fantasy setting, Boyne was simply referencing the dyeing process in one of his favourite video games, but he&#8217;s honest enough to admit that wasn&#8217;t the case:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LOL that is actually kinda hilarious. I&#8217;m totally willing to own it. \ud83d\ude02\ud83e\udd23Something tells me I&#8217;ll be telling this anecdote on stage for many years to come&#8230; \ud83d\ude02<\/span>\u2014 John Boyne \ud83d\udcda (@john_boyne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/john_boyne\/status\/1290144321367240707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Someone remind me to add Zelda to the acknowledgements page when the paperback of TRAVELLER is published&#8230; oh lord&#8230;\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude33 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CDUR9pQK5w\">pic.twitter.com\/CDUR9pQK5w<\/a><\/span>\u2014 John Boyne \ud83d\udcda (@john_boyne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/john_boyne\/status\/1290150102548582401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>So there you have it; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\"><strong>Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/strong><\/a> is so influential it&#8217;s even making its way into works of acclaimed fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Nintendo Life Irish novelist John Boyne has penned 18 books since 2000 (as well as a collection of short stories) but is perhaps most famous for his 2006 work The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, the harrowing tale of a doomed friendship between a Jewish boy in a World War II concentration camp and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}