{"id":1321,"date":"2007-05-02T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2007\/05\/02\/loltrek\/"},"modified":"2007-05-02T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T23:45:00","slug":"loltrek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2007\/05\/02\/loltrek\/","title":{"rendered":"LOLTrek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This link sent to me by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retrosynth.com\/\">Cary<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let\u2019s talk about <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">lolcats<\/span>. Lolcats, or cat macros, are a subset of <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">image macros<\/span>. They\u2019re pictures of cats with captions typed across them. In essence they\u2019re the \u201cHang In There Baby\u201d posters gone feral&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I quickly realized that there are no long-form lolcat works. The closest is Spatch\u2019s wonderful <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Cat Town<\/span>, and it\u2019s only a relative to lolcats. That set my fevered brain to spinning: what would a lolcat story look like? What if lolcats had a TV channel? What kind of shows would be on it?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is clear: <a href=\"http:\/\/granades.com\/2007\/05\/02\/loltrek\/\">they would show Star Trek.<\/a>  <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">[my link -CKL]<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This link sent to me by Cary: Let\u2019s talk about lolcats. Lolcats, or cat macros, are a subset of image macros. They\u2019re pictures of cats with captions typed across them. In essence they\u2019re the \u201cHang In There Baby\u201d posters gone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}