{"id":788,"date":"2016-01-02T02:24:19","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T18:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/02\/why-is-the-internet-obsessed-with-disney-princesses\/"},"modified":"2016-01-02T02:24:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T18:24:19","slug":"why-is-the-internet-obsessed-with-disney-princesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/02\/why-is-the-internet-obsessed-with-disney-princesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the Internet obsessed with Disney princesses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Disney-princess-edit\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAxLzAxLzg3L0Rpc25leVByaW5jLmMwNWRmLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/2fda225e\/055\/Disney-Princess-EDIT.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Why+is+the+Internet+obsessed+with+Disney+princesses%3F&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F01%2Finternet-obsession-disney-princesses%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F01%2Finternet-obsession-disney-princesses%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Take a moment and be honest with yourself. Sometime in the past few months, you \u2014 of your own free and sober\u00a0will \u2014 opened up and read a \u201cDisney princess\u201d listicle. Or quiz. Or worst yet, Tumblr post<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this isn\u2019t the kind of media\u00a0you typically digest\u2014you consider yourself a far more epicurean consumer. Ten years ago, while the feral, piddling intellects of the world scrounged like dogs for local news scraps, you had a print subscription to <em>The Economist<\/em>. And while you haven\u2019t read that Ta-Nehisi Coates article just quite yet, you already liked it twice on Facebook. You\u2019re not like the rest of these media-savvy millennial degenerates. There was just something about this \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/luckypeach.com\/disney-princesses-reimagined-as-hot-dogs\/\">Disney princesses as hot dogs<\/a>\u201d story that touched you, psychologically. You are, and it was, different. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/01\/internet-obsession-disney-princesses\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/disney\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Disney<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/obsession\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Obsession<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/psychology\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Psychology<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/web-trends\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Web Trends<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/the-little-mermaid\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">The Little Mermaid<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/1M24BuDZuhM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a moment and be honest with yourself. Sometime in the past few months, you \u2014 of your own free and sober\u00a0will \u2014 opened up and read a \u201cDisney princess\u201d listicle. Or quiz. Or worst yet, Tumblr post Of course, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/02\/why-is-the-internet-obsessed-with-disney-princesses\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,224,1,225,227,226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disney","category-obsession","category-other","category-psychology","category-the-little-mermaid","category-web-trends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}