{"id":8877,"date":"2002-11-12T23:32:02","date_gmt":"2002-11-13T04:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/11\/12\/the-smurfication-of-weblogs\/"},"modified":"2002-11-12T23:32:02","modified_gmt":"2002-11-13T04:32:02","slug":"the-smurfication-of-weblogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/11\/the-smurfication-of-weblogs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smurfication of weblogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remembered previously being<br \/>\nannoyed when the Smurfs were all the rage and that the word Smurf was used in<br \/>\nthe show as a noun or a verb or other parts of the English language that I can&#8217;t<br \/>\nidentify. Example are: have a smurfing good day, Smurfilicious, Smurfy, etc. The<br \/>\nword blog has also been used in this way, blogosphere, blogger, blogless,<br \/>\nblogging, and countless other examples. Now I am equally guilty of using blog as<br \/>\nsubstitutes or prefixes for words. Is this cutting edge cultural analysis? In<br \/>\none word &#8211; no.<\/p>\n<p>On a side note there is a <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/websmurfer.devnull.net\/\">Smurf web page translator<\/a>, I tried it<br \/>\non the <a href=\"http:\/\/jeff_millerold.blogspot.com\/www.drudgereport.com\">Drudge<br \/>\nReport<\/a> and it came up with these strange juxtapositions.<\/p>\n<p><i>Iraq war<br \/>\n&#8216;could kill 500,000&#8217;&#8230; Smurfy, isn&#8217;t it?<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p><i>Smurf Dies From Flesh Eating Bacteria&#8230; <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remembered previously being annoyed when the Smurfs were all the rage and that the word Smurf was used in the show as a noun or a verb or other&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}