{"id":99,"date":"2008-01-28T14:43:36","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T19:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jedbrubaker.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/28\/lolcats-go-to-yale\/"},"modified":"2008-01-28T14:47:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T19:47:45","slug":"lolcats-go-to-yale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/28\/lolcats-go-to-yale\/","title":{"rendered":"LOLCats study mind-control at Yale"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LOLCats!\"A bit of vindication today.<\/p>\n

It was two weeks ago that Trish saw a picture of a cat on my laptop and exclaimed “No more LOLCats!” She is so annoyed with the cats (or rather the frequency with which I will make a cultural reference to one) that even an analysis of the visual rhetoric involved won’t warm her up to the topic.<\/p>\n

Well, apparently there is a reason, and Yale researchers have provided it: Evolution Explains Why Lolcats Control Your Mind<\/a><\/p>\n

Perhaps that is why Rae Maor predicted<\/a> (shouting “LOLCATS will not die”, I might add) that 2008 will not see the end of our anthropomorphized friends.<\/p>\n

Ahh, now that is nice. So Trish, this one is for you. I R B lulzin thrus the O-8s.<\/p>\n

(via Digg<\/a>\/io9<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A bit of vindication today. It was two weeks ago that Trish saw a picture of a cat on my laptop and exclaimed “No more LOLCats!” She is so annoyed with the cats (or rather the frequency with which I will make a cultural reference to one) that even an analysis of the visual rhetoric […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJP4m-1B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}