{"id":454,"date":"2007-02-20T04:55:39","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T04:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=454"},"modified":"2022-02-25T05:03:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T05:03:43","slug":"nintendo-stole-our-meh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/20\/nintendo-stole-our-meh\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo stole our &#8216;MEH&#8217;!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"437\" height=\"328\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-62.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-62.png 437w, https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-62-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I swear I had an old post defining the word &#8220;MEH&#8221; on this site, but just realized that it probably was on the old web publishing engine my friend Dan wrote, called&nbsp;we::blog&nbsp;(it now consists of some Eastern European \/ Southeast Asian bloggers leaving random comments no one understands). So here it is again (a definition from my friend Bill and Aaron):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;meh&#8221; is created by a Vietnamese man (a friend of ours from our College days in Rochester , New York) named Thong, who created this strange word to define what has just happened, or been said is generally too dumb, silly, stupid, etc. to be commented upon.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So now, fast forward 15 years, while playing Nintendo&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.papermario.com\/\">Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door<\/a>&nbsp;I found a scene that used the word &#8216;meh&#8217;!?!?! With over 2 million copies sold, we should have patented the freaking word<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I swear I had an old post defining the word &#8220;MEH&#8221; on this site, but just realized that it probably was on the old web publishing engine my friend Dan wrote, called&nbsp;we::blog&nbsp;(it now consists of some Eastern European \/ Southeast Asian bloggers leaving random comments no one understands). So here it is again (a definition&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-62.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}