{"id":232,"date":"2009-11-11T20:20:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T20:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=232"},"modified":"2009-11-11T20:20:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T20:20:47","slug":"better_know_a_meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2009\/11\/better_know_a_meme\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Know a Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Do internet memes perplex you? Do you just not care enough to follow (or do you need your kids to explain) that thing with the <a href=\"http:\/\/icanhascheezburger.com\/\">cats<\/a>, that <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2009\/08\/14\/top-10-crasher-squirrels-pics\/\">squirrel<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bordom.net\/view\/27978\/Interrupting_Kanye_Meme\">Kanye at the mic<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>Well, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/\">a site that will do it for you<\/a>, and it will even parse the Auto-Tune trend trajectory (though admittedly the &#8220;how&#8221; does not illuminate the &#8220;why&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><center><object height=\"295\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fYzv-AVi78E&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fYzv-AVi78E&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"295\" width=\"480\"><\/object><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">[via <a href=\"http:\/\/waxy.org\/links\/\">Waxy<\/a>]<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do internet memes perplex you? Do you just not care enough to follow (or do you need your kids to explain) that thing with the cats, that squirrel, or Kanye at the mic? Well, there&#8217;s a site that will do it for you, and it will even parse the Auto-Tune trend trajectory (though admittedly the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}