{"id":2797,"date":"2009-02-07T14:07:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T18:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2009-02-07T14:07:27","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T18:07:27","slug":"25-random-meme-hits-the-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2009\/02\/25-random-meme-hits-the-press\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Random Meme Hits the Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The highly successful Facebook meme &#8220;25 Random Things about Me&#8221; has now &#8211; for good or ill &#8211; made it into the major news media. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/arts\/article\/0,8599,1877187,00.html\">Time<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/mwt\/feature\/2009\/02\/07\/25_random\/\">Salon<\/a>, and newspapers like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/05\/fashion\/05things.html?_r=1\">New York Times<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/lifestyle\/family\/articles\/2009\/02\/07\/the_hit_list\/\">Boston Globe<\/a> have all carried stories on the trendy epidemic and how it&#8217;s vectored. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only a variation of the memes bloggers have been playing with for more than five years now, but considering the viral theme I think it&#8217;s kinda neat that I&#8217;m third on Google.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2798\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2798\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/25virushead-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"25 Random Things about Me - Virushead\" title=\"25 Random Things about Me - Virushead\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/25virushead-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/25virushead-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/25virushead-450x322.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/25virushead.jpg 547w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2798\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">25 Random Things about Me - Virushead<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highly successful Facebook meme &#8220;25 Random Things about Me&#8221; has now &#8211; for good or ill &#8211; made it into the major news media. Time, Salon, and newspapers like the New York Times and the Boston Globe have all carried stories on the trendy epidemic and how it&#8217;s vectored. It&#8217;s only a variation of the memes bloggers have been playing with for more than five years now, but considering the viral theme I think it&#8217;s kinda neat that I&#8217;m&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2009\/02\/25-random-meme-hits-the-press\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,14,27],"tags":[5462,5461,61,1478,674,3581,5460,1787],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-blog-toys","category-virus-related","category-virushead","tag-25-random-things-about-me","tag-boston-globe","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-meme","tag-new-york-times","tag-salon","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions\/2801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}