{"id":4554,"date":"2011-01-02T12:06:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T19:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=4554"},"modified":"2011-01-02T12:06:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T19:06:06","slug":"the-great-american-standup-tournament-that-can-be-the-twitter-trending-topic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2011\/01\/02\/the-great-american-standup-tournament-that-can-be-the-twitter-trending-topic\/","title":{"rendered":"The great American standup tournament that can be the Twitter trending topic."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The original snap was: #thingsfatpeoplehatedoing.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some snaps back \u2013\u00a0one-liner&#8217;s, survey results \u2013\u00a0that caught my eye:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Jaz_1026\">Jasmine Lewis<\/a>: going to the doctor<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding:10px 0 10px 0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/fresh2aT\">Black Dynomite<\/a>: shopping for clothes<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/BuckyDolla\">Bucky Dolla<\/a>: walking up steps<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding:10px 0 10px 0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Jaz_1026\">Jasmine Lewis<\/a>: eating a salad at a restaurant with skinny people.. knowing their hungry as shit..<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/fresh2aT\">Black Dynomite<\/a>: wasting food<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding:10px 0 10px 0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/iSpeakMyMynd\">Miss Brii<\/a>: missing mealz&#8230;im fat (minded) i wud know lmmfao that shyt kills me to miss a meal<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/msgeek93\">Michelle Hass<\/a>: putting up with bigoted bull-crap. #lastacceptablebigotry .<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding:10px 0 10px 0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ANGERISLOUD\">angerisloud<\/a>: listening to people talk bad about them cus they fat. #youshudbeashamedofyourself<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ShamiriaMorten\">Shamiria Morten<\/a>: buying cheap sneakers. You know why!<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding:10px 0 10px 0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/LegendarySin973\">BrickCityLeqend..<\/a>: eating @Subway.. all that &#8220;eat fresh&#8221; bullshit is out the window..<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is a completely random survey. I just stopped counting after ten.<\/p>\n<p>If Twitter trending topics are a kind of new competitive standup, they&#8217;re also part of a tradition that dates back to previous game shows. I can almost hear the slick announcer at the start of the round saying: &#8220;Survey says: things fat people hate doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also worth noting that publishing the above list was not as easy as copying and paste. It took a knowledge of grep, HTML and access to a semi-private publishing platform like WordPress to do. <\/p>\n<p>In other words, there are some barriers to tapping the wealth of Twitter. But surely they will come down via a hundred start-ups soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original snap was: #thingsfatpeoplehatedoing. Here are some snaps back \u2013\u00a0one-liner&#8217;s, survey results \u2013\u00a0that caught my eye: Jasmine Lewis: going to the doctor Black Dynomite: shopping for clothes Bucky Dolla: walking up steps Jasmine Lewis: eating a salad at a restaurant with skinny people.. knowing their hungry as shit.. Black Dynomite: wasting food Miss Brii:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,13,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}