{"id":58342,"date":"2016-04-13T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58342"},"modified":"2016-04-10T09:42:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T14:42:37","slug":"i-hate-photomemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58342","title":{"rendered":"I Hate Photomemes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;photomeme&#8221; &#8211; the bits\u00a0of graphic overlaid with a simple, usually simplistic, message &#8211; may be, along with Twitter, \u00a0the greatest step toward Orwell&#8217;s &#8220;duckspeak&#8221; that Western communications have ever taken.<\/p>\n<p>But that doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;re not occasionally brilliant:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/12963577_936285993159353_1286409048676422616_n.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58344\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58344 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/12963577_936285993159353_1286409048676422616_n.jpg\" alt=\"12963577_936285993159353_1286409048676422616_n\" width=\"388\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/12963577_936285993159353_1286409048676422616_n.jpg 388w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/12963577_936285993159353_1286409048676422616_n-295x300.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s rare. Oh, so rare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;photomeme&#8221; &#8211; the bits\u00a0of graphic overlaid with a simple, usually simplistic, message &#8211; may be, along with Twitter, \u00a0the greatest step toward Orwell&#8217;s &#8220;duckspeak&#8221; that Western communications have ever taken. But that doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;re not occasionally brilliant: But it&#8217;s rare. Oh, so rare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-center-right-altmedia","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58346,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58342\/revisions\/58346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}