{"id":135852,"date":"2025-03-23T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135852"},"modified":"2025-03-23T06:19:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T10:19:31","slug":"washington-post-matt-nelson-rates-dogs-for-a-living-he-has-millions-of-loyal-followers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135852","title":{"rendered":"(Washington Post) Matt Nelson rates dogs for a living. He has millions of loyal followers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It started as a series of jokes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matt Nelson began posting one-liners on X, formerly Twitter, in 2015 to test his comedic chops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI noticed that all of my jokes that had to do with dogs just did way better than my other jokes,\u201d said Nelson, then a college freshman at Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That sparked an idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf the entire internet loves dogs, and so do I, and I have a knack for writing humorously about them, then I should start a new account,\u201d said Nelson, who grew up in Charleston, West Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/2025\/03\/20\/weratedogs-matt-nelson-dogs-social-media\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This man rates dogs for a living. He has millions of loyal followers. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gAJ7wJ5KHZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/gAJ7wJ5KHZ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jack Rogers (@Inpsycful) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Inpsycful\/status\/1902760181106348167?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It started as a series of jokes. Matt Nelson began posting one-liners on X, formerly Twitter, in 2015 to test his comedic chops. \u201cI noticed that all of my jokes that had to do with dogs just did way better<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135852\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135852"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135856,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135852\/revisions\/135856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}