{"id":686,"date":"2002-06-02T21:03:39","date_gmt":"2002-06-03T04:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/06\/meme-creation\/"},"modified":"2002-06-02T21:03:39","modified_gmt":"2002-06-03T04:03:39","slug":"meme-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/06\/02\/meme-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"Meme creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickdenton.org\/\">Nick Denton<\/a> continues his exercise in meme creation, promoting a false theory of blog history:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pedantic nitpick: she doesn&#8217;t even mention their precursors, the Bay Area techie blogs; I feel history being edited here. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve demonstrated here previously, the first and oldest blogs belonged to the people known today as warbloggers: Ken Layne, Bill Quick, and myself. The elves didn&#8217;t get on the bandwagon until 1999, by which time blogging was already old hat. But it&#8217;s a fun troll, clearly one of Denton&#8217;s favourites, and it earns him points with the elves.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Nick Denton continues his exercise in meme creation, promoting a false theory of blog history: Pedantic nitpick: she doesn&#8217;t even mention their precursors, the Bay Area techie blogs; I feel history being edited here. As we&#8217;ve demonstrated here previously, the first and oldest blogs belonged to the people known today as warbloggers: Ken Layne, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/06\/02\/meme-creation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meme creation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-b4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}