{"id":944,"date":"2009-07-22T20:23:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T03:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=944"},"modified":"2009-07-22T20:23:23","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T03:23:23","slug":"comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/07\/22\/comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>remembering some recent jokes i&#8217;ve heard, i thought: aren&#8217;t the best comedians some of the smartest people? to laugh is to physically surrender to the truthfulness of an idea. that&#8217;s powerful stuff.<\/p>\n<p>it stands to reason that some of the smartest people through the ages, the ones still being quoted today, were funny. like, really funny.<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s not like we invented laughter a hundred, a thousand or, even, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2005\/03\/0331_050331_animallaughter.html\">100,000 years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>for example, what if <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parables_of_Jesus\">Jesus&#8217; parables<\/a> were jokes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>remembering some recent jokes i&#8217;ve heard, i thought: aren&#8217;t the best comedians some of the smartest people? to laugh is to physically surrender to the truthfulness of an idea. that&#8217;s powerful stuff. it stands to reason that some of the smartest people through the ages, the ones still being quoted today, were funny. like, really&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}