{"id":6149,"date":"2004-05-07T07:13:32","date_gmt":"2004-05-07T14:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/05\/07\/meme-passages.html"},"modified":"2004-05-07T07:13:32","modified_gmt":"2004-05-07T14:13:32","slug":"meme_passages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/05\/07\/meme_passages.html","title":{"rendered":"Meme Passages"},"content":{"rendered":"

What I always thought of as the Grandmother of All Memes in the blogosphere, the Friday Five, has shut its doors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As someone who maintained something similar for far less than 2½ years, my hat’s off to Heather both for her persistence and for her willingness to pull the plug.<\/p>\n

My own meme-closure<\/a> marked a time when I myself was getting out of the daily meme-grubbing schtick<\/a>. I don’t seem to have been hurting for things to write about since, but it was an interesting couple of years where that was all the rage.<\/p>\n

Anyway, just a time passages note. Life goes on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What I always thought of as the Grandmother of All Memes in the blogosphere, the Friday Five, has shut its doors. 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