{"id":104186,"date":"2016-08-25T07:55:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T15:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=104186"},"modified":"2016-08-25T08:05:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T16:05:09","slug":"the-complicated-appeal-of-the-harambe-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=104186","title":{"rendered":"The Complicated Appeal of the Harambe Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/25\/us\/the-complicated-appeal-of-the-harambe-meme.html?module=WatchingPortal&#038;region=c-column-middle-span-region&#038;pgType=Homepage&#038;action=click&#038;mediaId=thumb_square&#038;state=standard&#038;contentPlacement=14&#038;version=internal&#038;contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&#038;contentId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2016%2F08%2F25%2Fus%2Fthe-complicated-appeal-of-the-harambe-meme.html&#038;eventName=Watching-article-click&#038;_r=0\">The New York Times says<\/a>: &#8220;The meme has also been used to spread harmful messages&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ohmigod, not harmful messages? That&#8217;s horrible. So sad. The MSM would never spread harmful messages, right? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/d31.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/d31-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"d31\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-104190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/d31-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/d31.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/haramb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/haramb-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"haramb\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-104192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/haramb-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/haramb.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/harambe.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/harambe-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"harambe\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-104193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/harambe-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/harambe.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/harambe1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/harambe1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"harambe1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-104196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/harambe1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/harambe1.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rip-harambe-black-lives-matter-we-miss-you-harambe-2614657.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rip-harambe-black-lives-matter-we-miss-you-harambe-2614657-230x300.png\" alt=\"rip-harambe-black-lives-matter-we-miss-you-harambe-2614657\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-104194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rip-harambe-black-lives-matter-we-miss-you-harambe-2614657-230x300.png 230w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rip-harambe-black-lives-matter-we-miss-you-harambe-2614657.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times says: &#8220;The meme has also been used to spread harmful messages&#8230;&#8221; Ohmigod, not harmful messages? That&#8217;s horrible. So sad. The MSM would never spread harmful messages, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104197,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104186\/revisions\/104197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}