{"id":5643,"date":"2012-01-04T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T01:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=5643"},"modified":"2012-01-08T10:14:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T02:14:45","slug":"meme-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2012\/01\/04\/meme-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Meme proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this marriage proposal video in which <a href=\"http:\/\/timothytiah.com\/\">Timothy Tiah<\/a> utilises popular memes to propose to his girlfriend (who is now his fiance; congratuations Tim!):<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/33507366?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/33507366\">Meme Proposal | Tim * Audrey<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/crazymonkey\">Crazy Monkey Studio<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I quite enjoyed the video (despite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AdviceAnimals\/comments\/o1cg2\/redditors_girlfriend\/\">reddit&#8217;s mixed feelings<\/a>) because (aside from being sweet) I feel that it demonstrates the participatory and universal nature of Internet culture.<\/p>\n<p>Popular <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet_meme\">memes<\/a> reflect shared human experience (that&#8217;s why they become popular!), and provide a platform to communicate personal feelings and experiences within that context.<\/p>\n<p>Good memes cross traditional cultural boundaries and are widely adapted and shared because people &#8220;get them&#8221; immediately and personally. They speak more to the modern human condition than high art or other culturally elitist works, and that&#8217;s why I like them&#8230; and this video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this marriage proposal video in which Timothy Tiah utilises popular memes to propose to his girlfriend (who is now his fiance; congratuations Tim!): Meme Proposal | Tim * Audrey from Crazy Monkey Studio on Vimeo. I quite enjoyed the video (despite reddit&#8217;s mixed feelings) because (aside from being sweet) I feel that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2012\/01\/04\/meme-proposal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meme proposal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-1t1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5643"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5659,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions\/5659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}