{"id":934,"date":"2013-06-16T00:27:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T06:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=934"},"modified":"2013-06-05T09:47:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T15:47:57","slug":"mum-help-womans-grand-canyon-photo-joke-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/16\/mum-help-womans-grand-canyon-photo-joke-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Mum, help!’ – woman’s Grand Canyon photo joke goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A woman who sent spoof photographs taken at the edge of the Grand Canyon to tease her anxious mother has found the images have gone viral on social networks.<\/p>\n

Samantha Busch, a 22-year-old from Illinois, asked her boyfriend to take the shot, which suggests she is about to tumble from a cliff-edge into the chasm below.<\/p>\n

Despite the expression on her face, she was in fact standing on a ledge out of sight below. She added the image to Reddit, the social networking site, with the caption “Mom was worried about my trip to the Grand Canyon, I sent her this picture”.<\/p>\n

Since its posting, the photograph has received thousands of comments, and has even attracted other copycat images.<\/p>\n

Ms Busch said she sent the picture to teach her over-anxious mother a lesson.<\/p>\n

“For five days up before I went on this trip, she [her mother] was worried about us visiting the Grand Canyon, because ‘people are dumb, they fall off, the wind blows over them the edge’,” Busch explained to ABC News.<\/p>\n

“So when while I was there, I found a cool little spot that I could sneak into, and lean back and look like I am falling off, and I thought that would be a great picture to send back home to my parents, who were worried about me.”<\/p>\n

Her act apparently had the desired effect. “My heart just dropped for 30 seconds,” her mother, Rebecca Busch, said. She did later say she had forgiven her daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A woman who sent spoof photographs taken at the edge of the Grand Canyon to tease her anxious mother has found the images have gone viral on social networks. Samantha Busch, a 22-year-old from Illinois, asked her boyfriend to take the shot, which suggests she is about to tumble from a cliff-edge into the chasm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}