{"id":189,"date":"2007-04-21T09:11:53","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T09:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=189"},"modified":"2007-04-21T09:11:53","modified_gmt":"2007-04-21T09:11:53","slug":"therealpointoftheinternet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/therealpointoftheinternet\/","title":{"rendered":"The real point of the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to &#8220;Avenue Q&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avenueq.com\/,\">http:\/\/www.avenueq.com\/,<\/a> the bawdy Broadway satire of Sesame Street, the internet is for &#8220;porn&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusonthefamily.com\/.\">http:\/\/www.focusonthefamily.com\/.<\/a>  But if you&#8217;ve been around long enough in this web-tastic world, you know that the internet is really just an elaborate vehicle for the dissemination of funny pictures.  There are the thousands of &#8220;lolcatz&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acc.umu.se\/~zqad\/cats\/\">http:\/\/www.acc.umu.se\/~zqad\/cats\/<\/a> pictures, the &#8220;overly cute&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/cuteoverload.com\/\">http:\/\/cuteoverload.com\/<\/a> pictures, and now, for some reason published in Russian, the &#8220;transportation pictures&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/onliner.ws\/2007\/04\/09\/idiotskaja_chelovecheska_logika.html.\">http:\/\/onliner.ws\/2007\/04\/09\/idiotskaja_chelovecheska_logika.html.<\/a>  I&#8217;ve put my favorite below, but it&#8217;s well-worth looking at all of them, and then e-mailing them to loved ones.  There&#8217;s nothing people like more than an inbox full of hilarious pictures, especially if it means they miss an important dental appointment because of it.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/alex\/carinacar.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to &#8220;Avenue Q&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avenueq.com\/,\">http:\/\/www.avenueq.com\/,<\/a> the bawdy Broadway satire of Sesame Street, the internet is for &#8220;porn&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusonthefamily.com\/.\">http:\/\/www.focusonthefamily.com\/.<\/a> But if you&#8217;ve been around long enough in this web-tastic world, you know that the internet is really just an elaborate vehicle for the dissemination of funny pictures. There are the thousands of &#8220;lolcatz&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acc.umu.se\/~zqad\/cats\/\">http:\/\/www.acc.umu.se\/~zqad\/cats\/<\/a> pictures, the &#8220;overly cute&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/cuteoverload.com\/\">http:\/\/cuteoverload.com\/<\/a> pictures, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[78,273],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-comedy","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}