{"id":22576,"date":"2012-01-13T13:03:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T13:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2012\/01\/13\/the-history-of-gab-the-meerkat-gab-has-been-my-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T05:53:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T05:53:06","slug":"the-history-of-gab-the-meerkat-gab-has-been-my-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2012\/01\/13\/the-history-of-gab-the-meerkat-gab-has-been-my-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-22576 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2012\/01\/13\/the-history-of-gab-the-meerkat-gab-has-been-my-2\/attachment\/22577\/#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" 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href='http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2012\/01\/13\/the-history-of-gab-the-meerkat-gab-has-been-my-2\/attachment\/22583\/#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tumblr_lxqi0lpwd81qglc0do8_500-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tumblr_lxqi0lpwd81qglc0do8_500-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tumblr_lxqi0lpwd81qglc0do8_500-1-90x90.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2012\/01\/13\/the-history-of-gab-the-meerkat-gab-has-been-my-2\/attachment\/22584\/#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tumblr_lxqi0lpwd81qglc0do9_640-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tumblr_lxqi0lpwd81qglc0do9_640-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tumblr_lxqi0lpwd81qglc0do9_640-1-90x90.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2012\/01\/13\/the-history-of-gab-the-meerkat-gab-has-been-my-2\/attachment\/22585\/#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tumblr_lxqi0lpwd81qglc0do10_1280-1-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tumblr_lxqi0lpwd81qglc0do10_1280-1-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tumblr_lxqi0lpwd81qglc0do10_1280-1-90x90.png 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2012\/01\/13\/the-history-of-gab-the-meerkat-gab-has-been-my-2\/attachment\/22586\/#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tumblr_lxqi0lpwd81qglc0do11_640-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tumblr_lxqi0lpwd81qglc0do11_640-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tumblr_lxqi0lpwd81qglc0do11_640-1-90x90.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The history of Gab the Meerkat! Gab has been my online avatar since 1997, back when I was involved in TLK-L and the lionking.org chatroom. She was very obviously influenced by my obsession with Timon. I don&rsquo;t draw her nearly as much anymore, though. Clearly, this must be remedied.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The history of Gab the Meerkat! Gab has been my online avatar since 1997, back when I was involved in TLK-L and the lionking.org chatroom. She was very obviously influenced by my obsession with Timon. I don&rsquo;t draw her nearly as much anymore, though. Clearly, this must be remedied.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,221,1330],"class_list":["post-22576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-furry","tag-gab","tag-meerkat","post_format-post-format-gallery","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}