{"id":5204,"date":"2011-10-31T18:20:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T22:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=5204"},"modified":"2011-10-31T18:20:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T22:20:07","slug":"huffington-post-zombie-takeover-occupying-your-braiiiins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2011\/10\/31\/huffington-post-zombie-takeover-occupying-your-braiiiins\/","title":{"rendered":"Huffington Post Zombie Takeover: #Occupying your BRAIIIINS!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’ve check the Huffington Post today, you will notice something very different: A “Zombie” page<\/a> has replaced the usual “Culture” section of the website. Just in time for Halloween, the internet newspaper has used the growing cultural obsession with zombies to create a parody of the zombie apocalypse occurring right now in their headquarters. Why? Because why not?<\/p>\n

Huffington Post is going all out with LIVE updates<\/a> of the takeover, posting tweets that sound reminiscent of Max Brooks’ “World War Z”<\/a>. I suggest reading from the beginning of the day until the end, as it definitely deteriorates quite a bit as the zombies begin tweeting themselves. For example:<\/p>\n

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11:32 AM\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Today<\/div>\n

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MRRRWOOOOWWWWWERRRRAHAHHAHRHRHARHAHRHRHARHHRHHHHRHAM.<\/p>\n

zombie blog when zombie want blog. zombie want eat blog like zombie eat brain, for blog is so full of sweet juice smosh snarsrh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But the writers at the Huffington Post don’t stop there.\u00a0 They have created a series of elaborate pieces written by zombies and about zombie issues (if there is such a thing), which ultimately serve to parody of some of our contemporary cultural debates. For instance, zombie guest blogger Mraramrmarm<\/a> defends non-brain eating zombies in a post titled “Accepting Alternative Lifestyles.”<\/p>\n

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Similarly, an unnamed zombie guest blogger defends LGBT rights in the post titled “Why to Care About Jenna Lyons’ Divorce.” This zombie blogger presciently writes:<\/p>\n

Jenna Lyons is beautiful human lady who have style and now she no have husband<\/a>. She love other human lady and leave human man. This very important to humans because pretty women can love pretty women is big thing for human. Zombie know that long time ago after zombie lesbian liberation movement of 1910 happen in Scottish cave and spread to world. Wonderful! Stand up zombie for memory and have moment silence now human are learning thing we learned long ago maybe soon they give brain to us freely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Such an elaborate parody brings to mind the Center for Disease Control’s “Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse” <\/a>guide released this past May, in which the CDC used the popularity of zombies to educate citizens about the importance of being prepared for natural disasters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’ve check the Huffington Post today, you will notice something very different: A “Zombie” page has replaced the usual “Culture” section of the website. Just in time for Halloween, the internet newspaper has used the growing cultural obsession with zombies to create a parody of the zombie apocalypse occurring right now in their headquarters. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1771,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[425],"tags":[27,1359,256,691,9065],"class_list":["post-5204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-blogging","tag-huffington-post","tag-humor","tag-parody","tag-zombies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1771"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5204"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5234,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions\/5234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}