{"id":2729,"date":"2005-03-16T08:21:17","date_gmt":"2005-03-16T14:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2005\/03\/16\/update-blog-alphamosaic-meme\/"},"modified":"2023-10-11T18:13:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T23:13:37","slug":"update-blog-alphamosaic-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2005\/03\/16\/update-blog-alphamosaic-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Blog Alphamosaic Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the life of a big-time blogger&#8230;drop a subtle hint and let my readers scurry off and do all the dirty work. Life is good!<\/p>\n<p>Last night, I posted something\u00a0about using photos of individual letters to assemble the name of a blog, and I committed to accomplishing that for the Gazette sometime during this millennium. But regular visitor and commenter Mr. Freen is no such slacker. Mr. Freen is a talented and energetic Red State operative doing covert work in a Blue State, and possibly has too much time on his hands during the endless northeastern winter. Anyway, he quickly assembled a Gazette alphamosaic built from specially selected images he googled up just for the occasion. It&#8217;s shown below; click on it to see a larger version.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/images\/fireant\/alphabet\/freen_l.jpg\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/images\/fireant\/alphabet\/freen_s.jpg\" alt=\"Alphamosaic: Fire Ant Gazette\" width=\"400\" height=\"127\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do I have great readers, or what?<\/p>\n<p>The only problem now is that I can&#8217;t possibly top this with my own creation. OTOH, my lack of skill has never prevented me from trying other things; the very existence of this blog bears ample witness to that fact. Why should this be any different?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blog alphamosaic meme incites reader action!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kitchen-sink","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729","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=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12688,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions\/12688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}