{"id":41069,"date":"2025-05-09T17:07:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T17:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/parody-linkedin-post-of-elmo-being-laid-off-goes-viral\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T17:07:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T17:07:32","slug":"parody-linkedin-post-of-elmo-being-laid-off-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/parody-linkedin-post-of-elmo-being-laid-off-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Parody LinkedIn post of Elmo being &#8216;laid off&#8217; goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A parody account on LinkedIn is going viral after a post said Elmo was fired. \u201cUnfortunately Elmo was recently laid off. Elmo worked at Sesame Street for 45 years. Elmo is sad,&#8221; the post says. While the post did not actually come from Elmo or &#8220;Sesame Street,&#8221; the message urges people to reach out to Congress to help save public broadcasting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A parody account on LinkedIn is going viral after a post said Elmo was fired. \u201cUnfortunately Elmo was recently laid off. Elmo worked at Sesame Street for 45 years. Elmo is sad,&#8221; the post says. While the post did not actually come from Elmo or &#8220;Sesame Street,&#8221; the message urges people to reach out to &#8230; <a title=\"Parody LinkedIn post of Elmo being &#8216;laid off&#8217; goes viral\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/parody-linkedin-post-of-elmo-being-laid-off-goes-viral\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Parody LinkedIn post of Elmo being &#8216;laid off&#8217; goes viral\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}