{"id":7434,"date":"2024-08-21T13:48:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T18:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7434"},"modified":"2024-08-21T13:48:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T18:48:51","slug":"raygun-won-the-meme-olympics-with-her-breakdancing-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/08\/21\/raygun-won-the-meme-olympics-with-her-breakdancing-moves\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Raygun\u2019 Won The Meme Olympics With Her Breakdancing Moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/danidiplacido\/2024\/08\/12\/raygun-won-the-meme-olympics-with-her-breakdancing-moves\/\">Forbes<\/a> The 2024 Paris Olympics was the debut of breakdancing on the Olympic stage, but Australian competitor, Rachael \u201cRaygun\u201d Gunn, became an internet celebrity after inspiring many memes mocking her performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While many of the athletes this year have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/danidiplacido\/2024\/08\/07\/memes-are-winning-the-2024-paris-olympics\/\">gone viral<\/a>\u00a0for their cool charisma or spectacular achievements, Gunn fell under the social media spotlight because of her perceived shortcomings. Footage of 36-year-old Gunn, known as \u201cRaygun,\u201d competing in the round-robin stage of the women&#8217;s breaking competition instantly went viral, with social media users confused by her unusual style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/danidiplacido\/2024\/08\/12\/raygun-won-the-meme-olympics-with-her-breakdancing-moves\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes The 2024 Paris Olympics was the debut of breakdancing on the Olympic stage, but Australian competitor, Rachael \u201cRaygun\u201d Gunn, became an internet celebrity after inspiring many memes mocking her performance. While many of the athletes this year have\u00a0gone viral\u00a0for their cool charisma or spectacular achievements, Gunn fell under the social media spotlight because of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coping-with-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-21-at-14.45.34.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7436,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434\/revisions\/7436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}