{"id":39597,"date":"2020-07-01T17:11:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T17:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=39597"},"modified":"2020-07-01T17:11:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T17:11:35","slug":"pop-culture-what-is-a-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/pop-culture-what-is-a-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop culture: what is a meme?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about something I should know: the tutor looks into the idea of <em>meme<\/em>.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI never heard the word <em>meme<\/em> until my kids started using it, likely when they were in middle school.<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Meme<\/em> seems to mean a point of view or very short story &#8211; possibly related as a picture or text &#8211; that people share. It can become a point of reference for other situations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAn example of a meme might be &#8220;safety buzz&#8221; &#8211; the premise of intentionally getting drunk before committing an indiscretion, so to be less culpable.\n<\/p>\n<p>Such is my understanding of <em>meme<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/meme\">merriam-webster.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=safety%20buzz\">urbandictionary.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about something I should know: the tutor looks into the idea of meme. I never heard the word meme until my kids started using it, likely when they were in middle school. Meme seems to mean a point of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/pop-culture-what-is-a-meme\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pop culture: what is a meme?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2976],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39600,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39597\/revisions\/39600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}