{"id":1083,"date":"2018-02-12T19:08:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T19:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2018-02-12T19:08:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T19:08:38","slug":"local-man-shocked-to-learn-internet-memes-arent-always-factual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1083","title":{"rendered":"Local man shocked to learn internet memes aren\u2019t always factual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Capture22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1085\" src=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Capture22-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Capture22-300x184.jpg 300w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Capture22-490x300.jpg 490w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Capture22.jpg 764w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 Dave Harris of Windsor was stunned this past weekend when friends told him that his recent political and social\u00a0opinions were not based in actual fact. \u201cI can\u2019t believe it\u201d Harris said at a hastily called news conference on Monday morning.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt turns out Donald Trump didn\u2019t actually accomplish more things than any first year president and Justin Trudeau didn\u2019t order a new rainbow version of the Canadian flag. I\u2019m just so embarrassed\u201d Harris said after friends presented him with actual facts not gathered in a meme on Facebook or Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just assumed all memes were accurate\u201d the newly enlightened Mr. Harris said, adding \u201cIn future I\u2019ll try not to fly off the handle on social media when I see a meme I agree or disagree with.\u00a0 I might even try reading a book again.\u00a0 It\u2019s tough to break the meme habit though as it was a really convenient way to gather news and information&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 Dave Harris of Windsor was stunned this past weekend when friends told him that his recent political and social\u00a0opinions were not based in actual fact. \u201cI can\u2019t believe it\u201d Harris said at a hastily called news conference &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1083\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}