{"id":3412,"date":"2005-07-06T16:52:21","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T23:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/07\/06\/she-struggled-to-what\/"},"modified":"2019-12-17T07:13:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T15:13:27","slug":"she-struggled-to-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/07\/06\/she-struggled-to-what\/","title":{"rendered":"She struggled to what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Kottke seems to be resurrecting an old meme. Evidence:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Kottke, July 6, 2000: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/00\/07\/as-i-was-walking-home\" title=\"kottke.org: As I was walking home\">As I was walking home<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Megnut, July 6, 2000: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megnut.com\/2000\/07\/as-i-was-walking-home\" title=\"megnut: As I was walking home\">As I was walking home<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Plasticbag, July 7, 2000: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticbag.org\/archives\/2000\/07\/on_a_little_girl_on_a_bicycle.shtml\" title=\"Plasticbag: On a little girl on a bicycle\">On a little girl on a bicycle<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Metafilter, July 7, 2000: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/comments.mefi\/2382\" title=\"MetaFilter: Comments on 2382\">Comments on 2382<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kottke, July 6, 2005: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/05\/07\/a-long-time-ago\" title=\"kottke.org: A long time ago...\">A long time ago&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>I got curious how many other people had participated in the meme, and did a Google Search for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=She+still+had+the+training+wheels+on+as+she+wobbled+and+struggled+to+peddle.&amp;sourceid=mozilla-search&amp;start=0&amp;start=0&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official\" title=\"Google for 'She still had the training wheels on as she wobbled and struggled to peddle.'\">one sentence in the post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Google returned 162 hits.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>However &#8212; and this is what made all this funny to me &#8212; Google also suggested that maybe that wasn&#8217;t <em>really<\/em> what I wanted to search for. Maybe I <em>really<\/em> wanted to search for the phrase, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;hs=eLx&amp;c2coff=1&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;q=She+still+had+the+training+wheels+on+as+she+wobbled+and+struggled+to+paddle.&amp;spell=1\" title=\"Google for 'She still had the training wheels on as she wobbled and struggled to paddle.'\">She still had the training wheels on as she wobbled and struggled to <strong>paddle<\/strong>.<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how different the results are when you change one little letter.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kottke seems to be resurrecting an old meme. I got curious how many other people had participated in the meme, and did a Google Search for one sentence in the post. Google suggested a change&#8230;it&#8217;s amazing how different the results are when you change one little letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}