{"id":11693,"date":"2023-01-20T12:54:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T18:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/?p=11693"},"modified":"2023-01-20T12:54:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T18:54:27","slug":"memes-going-to-the-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2023\/01\/20\/memes-going-to-the-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Memes Going To The Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Please ignore Fallen Chia Man, above. I’m drafting a stern memo to our graphics department, and I trust we won’t be subject to such a dismal attempt in the future.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m not sure why something going to the dogs is deemed to be a bad thing. It could be Biblical; there are a lot of verses dealing with dogs licking blood<\/a>, eating food meant for children<\/a>, and generally being symbols of Very Bad People<\/a>. But let’s set aside derogatory metaphors for the moment, and focus on a few things that make our canine companions so gosh darned wonderful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alert Gazette readers will recall this post<\/a> from a couple of months ago in which we celebrated the wonderful weirdness of cats. I figure it’s about time to give los perros<\/em> their fair due. See if you recognize your perfectly personable pooch in any of the following memes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sure, this theoretically applies to cats as well, except they would never come to your lame party.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“I’m not making that<\/em> mistake again…”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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…and not a skunk-scented one in the bunch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This is SUCH a stereotype…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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OK…maybe not.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In that case, we wish they would run for Congress.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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So close…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And, anyway, it’s your fault for having such a short dining table.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Someday, somewhere, sometime…this will work. We just know it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dogs always get their points across, even with substandard grammar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Also, as far as you know, a dog created this post. The grammar may have given it away.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Does this really qualify as a meme? Probably not…but who cares?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cats got their recognition a couple of months ago. It’s now the dogs’ turn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,42],"tags":[120],"class_list":["post-11693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memes","category-pets","tag-dog-memes","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/chiaman.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11693"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11701,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693\/revisions\/11701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}