{"id":58165,"date":"2019-01-03T03:08:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T10:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/this-is-the-pop-culture-that-helped-us-survive-2018\/"},"modified":"2019-01-03T03:08:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T10:08:48","slug":"this-is-the-pop-culture-that-helped-us-survive-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/this-is-the-pop-culture-that-helped-us-survive-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the pop culture that helped us survive 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As always, the first days of January are a time to look back on the previous year and wrap it up into a neat package, usually by thinking \u201cOh geez, did that actually happen last year? It feels like that was a decade ago.\u201d That\u2019s why it can be fun to look back on our favorite things of the year, the culture that endured with us past release weekend or the latest news cycle. Here\u2019s what made a difference to us in 2018.<\/p>\n

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When Noelle Stevenson\u2019s Netflix reboot of She-Ra: Princess of Power<\/em> dropped its first preview images online, a familiar dank, never-pleased subsection of the internet started griping about them. But a completely different area of the…<\/p>\n

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As always, the first days of January are a time to look back on the previous year and wrap it up into a neat package, usually by thinking \u201cOh geez, did that actually happen last year? It feels like that was a decade ago.\u201d That\u2019s why it can be fun to look back on our… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":58166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t