{"id":37127,"date":"2017-09-22T01:19:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T08:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/?p=13958"},"modified":"2017-09-22T01:19:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T08:19:13","slug":"cartoon-week-emoticon-turns-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/cartoon-week-emoticon-turns-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon of the Week: The emoticon turns 35 :-)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The emoticon is celebrating its 35th anniversary this week!<\/p>\n<p>On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon computer scientist Scott Fahlman used a \ud83d\ude42 to indicate a joke in a message board post, and it has been famous ever since.<\/p>\n<p>The emoticon gave birth to emoji, which changed the way we communicate. Now emoticons are seen as old school, but they inspired the emojis we use today.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s honor the symbols that make our communication more emotional and our texts more alive.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday, smiley face \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Stay tuned for more fun cartoons!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/exoplatform\/cartoon-of-the-week\/\" data-pin-do=\"embedBoard\" data-pin-scale-width=\"80\" data-pin-scale-height=\"200\" data-pin-board-width=\"400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow eXo Platform&#8217;s board Cartoon of the Week on Pinterest.<\/a><!-- Please call pinit.js only once per page --><script src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\" async=\"\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The emoticon is celebrating its 35th anniversary this week! On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon computer scientist Scott Fahlman used a \ud83d\ude42 to indicate a joke in a message board post, and it has been famous ever since. The emoticon gave birth to emoji, which changed the way we communicate. Now emoticons are seen as [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[813],"tags":[606,817],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":37127},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}