{"id":29548,"date":"2022-02-14T07:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29548"},"modified":"2022-02-14T07:08:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T13:08:00","slug":"livin-the-meme-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/14\/livin-the-meme-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Livin&#8217; the Meme, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen, once or twice, on the Internet the photograph of a principal or teacher standing in a gym where the school and mascot name, the Sparta Trojans, are on the wall behind the principal, and the text is something like, &#8220;The history classes at this school are suspect.&#8221;  I didn&#8217;t snag it because it didn&#8217;t really speak to me.  I went looking for it this weekend, but I couldn&#8217;t find it via an image search nor on recent meme round-up posts at <a href=\"http:\/\/ogdaa.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Knuckledraggin<\/a>, <a href=\"\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Powerline<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Bayou Renaissance Man<\/a>.  So just take my word for it.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, I went to an archery tournament in Sparta.  Home of the Trojans.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/spartatrojans.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time I&#8217;ve known the exact location of a meme; the overpass with the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/03\/meanwhile-in-the-powerline-week-in-pictures-we-get-my-area\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Buffalo Springfield sign<\/a> is over on Kearney.  And who can forget the CAPTCHA that was <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/18\/creeped-out-by-the-captcha\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">just a few blocks from my home in Old Trees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many people have experienced first hand the subject of memes.  Probably a lot, especially amongst the kids that are on the TikTok and sharing things from their lives with their friends.<\/p>\n<p>But, still.  I&#8217;m talking nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of like I always see individual street lights that go out when I&#8217;m near.  It might be because my aura disrupts them, or it&#8217;s more likely because I am looking for the pattern and see it.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, by the way, the Answer Man once researched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/story\/news\/local\/ozarks\/2014\/07\/24\/trojans-spartas-mascot-spartans\/13102241\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">the history of the mascot<\/a>, and his results were inconclusive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen, once or twice, on the Internet the photograph of a principal or teacher standing in a gym where the school and mascot name, the Sparta Trojans, are on the wall behind the principal, and the text is something like, &#8220;The history classes at this school are suspect.&#8221; I didn&#8217;t snag it because it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29550,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29548\/revisions\/29550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}